Senior Software Engineer

Microsoft

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Work type: Hybrid
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Salary: $119,800–$234,700 / yr
Posted: 13 days ago
Freshness: Confirmed live today
Closes: Apr 11, 2027

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Above market

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This role pays more than 74% of similar roles. Most pay $149,500–$178,175 — the blue band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $177k versus about $164k for comparable roles.

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About Microsoft

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 694 open roles on FindRole.

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TL;DR · Senior Software Engineer

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The Senior Software Engineer joins the Data Analytics team within Microsoft Fabric to lead engineering strategy and execution for core data engineering experiences and platform services. This role involves designing and implementing scalable, reliable, and secure capabilities for products including Lakehouse, Notebooks, and Spark. The engineer will drive technical leadership for complex cross-component initiatives, solve distributed systems problems, and explore AI-powered approaches for intelligent developer workflows and diagnostics. Key responsibilities include delivering high-impact projects from design through production readiness while ensuring operational excellence. Candidates should possess experience with coding languages such as C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python. The role specifically addresses the technical challenge of providing a unified platform for structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data to enable enterprise-scale analytics and data-first applications.

What does a Software Engineer earn?

Median $197400 from 2576 postings across 150 companies.

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Skills

Microsoft Fabric Apache Spark Python C# Java C++ C JavaScript Azure SQL DB Azure Cosmos DB Azure PostgreSQL Azure Data Factory Azure Synapse Analytics Azure Service Bus Azure Event Grid Power BI Lakehouse Distributed Systems Monitoring and Observability

What you'll do

Design and implement scalable, reliable, and secure capabilities for Microsoft Fabric data engineering services.
Provide technical leadership for complex, cross-component initiatives and shape architecture across multiple services.
Lead end-to-end delivery of high-impact projects from technical design through production launch.
Solve distributed systems and data platform problems at enterprise scale focusing on performance and reliability.
Apply AI-powered approaches to improve data engineering and developer workflows, including intelligent assistance and automation.
Define priorities and influence technical direction by collaborating with engineering, product, and partner teams.

What we're looking for

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or a related technical field.
4+ years of technical engineering experience with coding in languages such as C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python (or equivalent experience).
Ability to meet Microsoft, customer, and/or government security screening requirements, including the Microsoft Cloud Background Check.
Experience designing, building, and operating large-scale distributed systems, including distributed databases and data processing platforms (preferred).
Familiarity with distributed systems and data processing frameworks such as Apache Spark (preferred).
Experience with AI-assisted software development, coding agents, or agent-based development workflows (preferred).
Experience driving complex technical initiatives across multiple services or engineering teams (preferred).

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