Senior Software Engineer

Microsoft; Kentucky; On-site; USD 119,000 - 235,000; Full time

Job summary

Microsoft invites applications for the Senior Software Engineer role in Kentucky. The position involves working on cutting-edge data platforms to enhance AI-driven insights and requires proficiency in various programming languages and Azure services. Ideal candidates will have a strong foundation in systems engineering and automation, aimed at creating a seamless integration within the Microsoft Fabric ecosystem.

Qualifications

• 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding.
• 2 years experience with Azure services.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement features for a scalable Resource Manager.
• Build developer-friendly SDKs and automation tools.
• Collaborate across AI and data engineering teams.

Skills

C

C++

C#

Java

JavaScript

Python

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science

Job description

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Microsoft is a company where passionate innovators come to collaborate, envision what can be and take their careers further. This is a world of more possibilities, more innovation, more openness, and the sky is the limit thinking in a cloud-enabled world.

Microsoft’s Azure Data engineering team is leading the transformation of analytics in the world of data with products like databases, data integration, big data analytics, messaging & real-time analytics, and business intelligence. The products our portfolio include Microsoft Fabric, Azure SQL DB, Azure Cosmos DB, Azure PostgreSQL, Azure Data Factory, Azure Synapse Analytics, Azure Service Bus, Azure Event Grid, and Power BI. Our mission is to build the data platform for the age of AI, powering a new class of data-first applications and driving a data culture.

Within Azure Data, the Microsoft Fabric platform team builds and maintains the operating system and provides customers a unified data stack to run an entire data estate. The platform provides a unified experience, unified governance, enables a unified business model and a unified architecture.

The Microsoft Fabric team is building the next-generation data platform to power AI-driven insights at scale. As a Senior Software Engineer on the Fabric Platform team, you will play a key role in enabling workloads to integrate seamlessly with the Fabric ecosystem through a scalable Resource Manager, robust SDKs, and fully automated infrastructure provisioning. You’ll work on foundational platform components that connect directly with OneLake, Azure, and Microsoft’s expanding AI stack.

We’re looking to hire Senior Software Engineers who excel at building high-scale, developer-friendly platforms, with strong systems-level expertise and hands-on development experience. You should be passionate about crafting reusable, multi-tenant infrastructure that powers rich experiences across data, analytics, and machine learning workloads.

We do not just value differences or different perspectives. We seek them out and invite them in so we can tap into the collective power of everyone in the company. As a result, our customers are better served.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement features for a scalable Resource Manager to support the onboarding and lifecycle management of workload-specific resources in Microsoft Fabric.
• Build developer-friendly SDKs and automation tools that enable teams to provision and manage infrastructure aligned with security, compliance, and governance standards.
• Automate deployment workflows that scale across regions, sovereign clouds (e.g., government cloud), and compliance boundaries.
• Collaborate with teams across AI, OneLake, and data engineering to ensure infrastructure supports high-performance analytics and machine learning workloads.
• Drive improvements in monitoring, telemetry, and alerting to ensure platform health, reliability, and operational transparency.
• Participate in code reviews, architecture discussions, and operational readiness reviews to uphold quality and align with Microsoft’s Secure Development Lifecycle (SDL).
• Author and maintain internal documentation, onboarding guides, and best practices to support platform scalability and ease of adoption.
• Embody our culture and values
  
  

Qualifications

Required/Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
• OR equivalent experience.
• 2 Years experience with Azure services, particularly in areas like ARM, storage, compute, identity, and policy enforcement.
  

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/Additional Qualifications

• Familiarity with OneLake, Synapse, or other Microsoft Fabric components.
• Experience building or operating platforms that support multi-tenant, multi-region workloads.
  
  

Software Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $119,800 - $234,700 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 $158,400 - $258,000 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until July 4th, 2025.

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Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Not Applicable

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Engineering and Information Technology

• Industries

  Software Development

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