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The Senior Software Engineer joins the DW Swift full-stack engineering team within the Fabric SQL Data Warehouse group. This role focuses on building world-class infrastructure and engineering systems to accelerate feature development for a next-generation SaaS Enterprise Data Warehouse. You will design and maintain highly reliable distributed environments, deployment automation, cluster provisioning, and validation pipelines. Key responsibilities include troubleshooting issues across organizations, mentoring team members, and producing maintainable code focused on security and performance. You will utilize technologies including C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python, while leveraging AI to streamline engineering workflows. The work involves solving complex infrastructure challenges to enable rapid, high-quality product releases and providing seamless analytics experiences by integrating structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data across the SQL Server ecosystem.
What does a Software Engineer earn?
Median $196000 from 2484 postings across 146 companies.
Build and maintain highly reliable distributed environments for rapid deployment and end-to-end verification.
Design and develop engineering systems and infrastructure leveraging new technologies and AI.
Troubleshoot issues and identify root causes in collaboration with engineers across multiple organizations.
Maintain and run efficient engineering systems and services to support internal stakeholders.
Define product requirements and create technical designs for future product capabilities with stakeholders.
Produce extensible and maintainable code focused on security, reliability, diagnosability, and performance.
Lead design discussions and hold ownership for critical architectural design decisions.
Participate in an on-call rotation to maintain service health.
What we're looking for
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field and 4+ years of technical engineering experience with coding in languages like C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python (or equivalent experience).
Ability to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire and every two years thereafter.
Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field and 6+ years of technical engineering experience with coding in languages like C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python (preferred).
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field and 8+ years of technical engineering experience with coding in languages like C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python (preferred).
Experience working on infrastructure, engineering systems, and deployments supporting development of large-scale enterprise-class distributed systems software (preferred).
Experience working in a fast-paced environment with several teams to develop and maintain reliable environments and infrastructure services (preferred).
Proven track record in delivering reliable, scalable, and highly performant end-to-end solutions (preferred).
Hands-on engineering experience developing and managing scalable cloud services across technologies such as Azure, AWS, or GCP (preferred).
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