Senior Software Engineer - Backend

• Work closely with a passionate team of engineers to deliver impactful solutions that drive customer success
• Drive design and implementation, test, ship, and support large-scale services and components that power Fabric Data Engineering experiences, with industry leading quality, performance, scalability, reliability, and security
• Collaborate with Product Management to define product requirements, validate specifications, and align on customer and business needs
• Apply a growth mindset to tackle complex technical problems and deliver innovative, high-quality solutions
• Contribute to a team culture centered on learning, continuous improvement, engineering excellence, and high-quality execution
• Support and lead live site operations, ensuring service health, availability, and rapid mitigation of issues
• Mentor and support peers, helping grow the team's collective capabilities and enabling shared success

Required/Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND proven technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
• OR equivalent experience.

Job Requirements: Other & Additional

Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings: Microsoft Cloud Background Check:

• This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter., * Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND substantial technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C#/.NET or equivalent backend languages
• OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field
• AND significant technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C#/.NET or equivalent backend languages.
• Proven experience designing and delivering large scale backend or distributed systems
• Experience leading technical design for services or platforms
• Experience designing, implementing, deploying, and operating scalable cloud services
• Track record of owning critical systems with high reliability and operational excellence
• Experience collaborating across engineering, product, and operations teams

This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

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