Software Engineer II Microsoft
Redmond, WA

Job Description

Azure Big Data teams (Azure Data Lake, HDInsight, Azure Stream Analytics and Cosmos) present interesting challenges in technologies such as big data, cloud, storage and open-source. We build reliable, highly scalable and highly performing distributed systems for data analytics on Azure. We work with various open-source technologies like Spark, Hadoop and Yarn and make contributions to these technologies. We are creating a planetary scale storage system, which can scale to Exabyte of data (yes, that's 18+ digits!). We are building next-generation globally distributed, elastic scale, multi-model cloud database services. It is designed to enable developers to build planet-scale applications.

Basic Qualifications:

* Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Engineering or Mathematics or Physics or IT related technical discipline or in place of 3+ years of internship or 3+ years of industry software engineering experience
* 2+ years of programming experience in Java OR C++ OR C# OR C OR object-oriented programming OR SQL like languages
* Experience building analytics solutions on large datasets

Preferred Qualifications:

* Experience building data pipelines, collecting metrics/logs and hauling data to storage specific to various needs (service monitoring, business monitoring etc.)
* Experience employing AI & ML to solve high impact business problems
* Experience working across teams spanning multiple orgs
* Experience with OSS components like Spark and Hadoop eco system
* Experience working with Azure service fabric
* Great curiosity and willingness to question
* High enthusiasm, integrity, ingenuity, results-orientation, self-motivation, and resourcefulness in a fast-paced competitive environment.
* Love the next problem, the next experiment, the next partner
* Have a deep desire to work collaboratively, solve problems with groups, find win/win solutions and celebrate successes
* Get excited by the challenge of hard technical problems
* Solve problems by always leading with deep passion and empathy for customers

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.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.

Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.

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The Big Data Fundamentals team focuses on advanced data Insights and recommendations externally to our customers and internally for the business and the engineering teams. As an engineer in our team, you have an opportunity to work on the latest technology in data engineering/data science leveraging ML and AI to enable our customers and partners in making data driven decisions.

Do you want to solve challenges that you didn't even know existed until you get to a large size? Come join us on the Azure Big Data team!