Overview
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 messaging and real-time analytics team provides comprehensive solutions and a robust platform that enables users to ingest high granularity signals (real-time & observability) and complex data, converting those into a competitive advantage in real-time for both end users and modern applications.
The Azure Messaging team is hiring a Software Engineer II to help shape the next generation of our platform and control plane infrastructure. Our services handle tens of thousands of requests every second with low latencies, acting as the reliable backbone for customers across the globe. We're looking for dedicated, creative distributed systems engineers who are passionate about solving complex problems at scale.
In this role, you’ll work on high-impact components that serve as the entry point for Azure Messaging services. Your work will be central to how customers configure and interact with our platform. As a Software Engineer II, you will lead the design and implementation of critical distributed systems that operate at massive scale within Azure messaging services. You will own complex technical problems, influence system architecture, and raise the engineering bar for quality, reliability, and operational excellence across the team.
Beyond the core platform, the team applies its deep messaging expertise to power strategic scenarios in Microsoft Fabric — a completely managed SaaS offering. We enable the seamless ingestion, transformation, and cataloging of streaming data, helping customers unlock real-time insights with minimal operational overhead.
This is a unique opportunity to be part of a team that operates at the heart of Azure’s messaging stack, where your contributions will directly influence the growth and reliability of the platform while enabling new experiences across Microsoft’s data ecosystem.
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
- Drive the design and implementation of complex, large-scale distributed systems by producing technical designs, proof-of-concepts, and prototype solutions from ambiguous or high-level requirements.
- Own end-to-end delivery of key system components, including design tradeoffs, implementation, testing strategy, deployment, and long-term operability.
- Continuously improve system performance, scalability, and resilience by identifying architectural gaps, leading refactoring efforts, and addressing systemic technical debt.
- Define and apply metrics, best practices, and quality bars to ensure long-term service stability, operational excellence, and strong return on engineering investment.
- Lead code reviews and design discussions, setting technical direction and mentoring engineers to improve overall code quality and system design maturity.
- Collaborate across teams and organizations to align designs, influence dependencies, and deliver solutions that scale across Azure.
- Build and evolve the core messaging infrastructure that underpins hundreds of thousands of Azure applications, supporting critical platform capabilities such as eventing, asynchronous workflows, telemetry, and diagnostics.
Embody our culture and values
Qualifications
**Required/Minimum Qualifications **
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 3+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience.
- 1+ years experience with distributed messaging systems such as Azure Service Bus, Apache Kafka, RabbitMQ, Google Pub/Sub, or SQS/Kinesis or experience with stream processing or real-time data platforms such as Apache Spark, Flink, Storm, or similar frameworks
**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.
**Preferred/Additional Qualifications **
- Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 3+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 5+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience.
- Experience designing and owning components of distributed systems, including handling scalability, reliability, and operational concerns.
- Experience driving technical design discussions, authoring design documents, and making sound architectural tradeoffs.
- Proficient collaboration skills with the ability to work effectively across teams and disciplines.
- Experience participating in on-call rotations and owning live-site health and operational excellence for services.
- Experience leading the design, implementation, and operation of critical, large-scale cloud service components, preferably on Azure or a comparable cloud platform.
- Deep understanding of distributed systems concepts such as replication, partitioning, consistency models, and failure recovery.
- Experience with messaging platforms, eventing systems, or high-throughput data pipelines.
- Demonstrated ability to mentor engineers and raise the technical bar through code reviews, design feedback, and knowledge sharing.
- Experience driving reliability, performance, or security improvements across multiple components or services.
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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.
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. 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 with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about **requesting accommodations.**