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Quick summary

Work type: On-site
Location: Redmond, WA
Salary: $100,600–$199,000 / yr
Posted: 49 days ago
Nearby: 99+ roles within 25 mi

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Below market

How this pay compares to similar roles

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This role $150k

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This role pays less than 84% of similar roles. Most pay $155,000–$207,350 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $150k versus about $181k for comparable roles.

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Microsoft Corporation is a global technology leader producing software, hardware, and cloud services including Windows, Office 365, Azure cloud platform, Xbox gaming, and Surface devices. Industry: Software & Cloud Computing

Microsoft currently has 1103 open roles on FindRole.

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The Data Engineer II position at Microsoft’s Copilot and Platform Ecosystem (CAPE) team involves designing and maintaining scalable data pipelines that ingest, transform, and serve high-volume telemetry and business data. This role requires close collaboration with Data Scientists, Product Managers, and Engineers to ensure data quality and reliability for downstream analytics, alerts, and dashboards across M365 Copilot, Teams Copilot, and Microsoft Teams. Key responsibilities include defining data requirements, implementing validation checks, building orchestration tools, and operationalizing pipelines with monitoring and troubleshooting runbooks. The ideal candidate should have experience with Azure Data Explorer (Kusto) and other cloud-based platforms, along with strong skills in SQL or programmatic tooling for data engineering tasks.

Skills

Azure Data Explorer Kusto Cosmos DB SQL Python CI/CD Monitoring Alerting Orchestration Cloud-based data platforms Data quality Validation Operational reliability Terraform Azure Services

What you'll do

Design and maintain scalable data pipelines to ingest and load high-volume telemetry and business data into analytical platforms.
Implement data validation and quality checks to ensure accuracy, completeness, freshness, and reliability of data.
Build orchestration and automation for dependable, repeatable data movement in production systems.
Transform and model data to power downstream datasets, dashboards, alerts, and agent experiences.
Operationalize pipelines with monitoring, troubleshooting/runbooks, root-cause analysis, performance/cost optimization.

What we're looking for

Master's degree in a relevant field and 1+ year of experience, or Bachelor's degree and 2+ years of experience.
Design and maintain scalable data pipelines using Azure Data Explorer/Kusto.
Implement data validation and quality checks to ensure SLAs for accuracy and reliability.
Experience with cloud-based data platforms like Azure Data Explorer or Cosmos DB.
Build and operationalize data pipelines with monitoring, troubleshooting, and performance optimization.
Strong ownership and accountability in a production data system environment.

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