Software Engineer: Azure Data Fabric OneLake

Overview

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As a Software Engineer on the Microsoft Fabric OneLake team, you'll help build the foundational interoperability architecture and external data onboarding infrastructure for Fabric's unified data lake. OneLake is the core data layer of Microsoft Fabric, providing a single, governed, and scalable data platform for the enterprise. Our team designs and operates highly scalable, distributed systems that define how external partners and ISVs integrate with Fabric, enabling seamless, secure, and high-performance data access across the ecosystem.

You'll develop extensible, maintainable backend services that power open APIs, service interoperability, and large-scale data access. Working closely with cross-functional partners, you'll translate customer and ecosystem needs into high-quality solutions, apply modern debugging and telemetry practices, and contribute to systems that meet Microsoft's standards for scalability, reliability, security, privacy, and accessibility.

Learn more:

• OneLake Overview
• Microsoft Fabric Overview

Responsibilities

• Collaborates with stakeholders to break work items into actionable tasks, provide estimates, and escalate risks or delays.
• Supports feature deployments with a focus on reliability and customer impact.
• Designs, implements, and maintains backend services and APIs that enable scalable interoperability and external data onboarding across OneLake and the Fabric ecosystem; applies coding standards and participates in code reviews.
• Uses debugging tools, logs, and telemetry to diagnose issues, improves performance and reliability, and informs design decisions in large-scale distributed systems.
• Contributes to design documentation, dependency analysis, testing strategies, and automation.
• Participates in live service operations as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) to monitor and restore service health while meeting security, privacy, safety, and accessibility standards.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

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

Other Requirements

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.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical field, AND 1+ year(s) technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C#, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python,
  • OR Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field with proven experience coding in languages including, but not limited to, C++, C#, Java, Python, Rust or Go,
  • OR equivalent experience.
• Experience with cloud computing, distributed systems, and/or scalable service architecture.
• Interest in building interoperable backend platforms.
• Experience with object-oriented programming using C#/.NET.
• Understanding of core CS fundamentals including data structures, algorithms, API design, and service-to-service communication (REST).
• Familiarity with modern engineering tools and practices such as Azure, Git/GitHub, CI/CD pipelines, and observability/monitoring systems.

Software Engineering IC2 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $84,200 - $165,200 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $109,000 - $180,400 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:
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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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