Senior Software Engineering, Data Platform

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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.
We are the Fabric Eventstream & connector team, the gateway for all streaming and real-time data flowing into Microsoft Fabric -- from anywhere. Our platform enables data engineers and analysts to easily ingest, transform, and act on data-in motion; powering event-driven, real-time and agentic applications and unlocking new use cases across our global user base.
As a result, our customers are better served.

Build and evolve messaging integrations (Kafka/AMQP/ and connectors for Azure Event Hubs/IoT Hub/Service Bus, including schema handling, system properties, and observability.
Drive reliability and live‑site excellence-telemetry, SLOs, auto‑mitigation, on‑call rotations-and ship durable fixes that improve MTTR/MTBF.
Advance platform capabilities such as Customer‑Managed Keys (CMK), network isolation, and AAD‑based authZ across Event Streams resources.
Collaborate across teams (Event Hubs, ASA, Kusto, Fabric Platform) to deliver end‑to‑end streaming scenarios and developer experiences.
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field 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.
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.

5+ years building distributed systems or large‑scale cloud services (C#, Java, Go, or similar) with deep knowledge of concurrency, replication, partitioning, and consistency.
~ Azure Event Hubs, Kafka, Service Bus, Flink/Spark/ASA), including throughput, latency, and reliability trade‑offs.
~ Proven ability to frame ambiguous problems, design clear interfaces/contracts, and ship incrementally in partnership with PM/UX and platform teams
~ Experience building observability for streaming systems (watermarks, lag, throughput, out‑of‑order handling) and workspace‑level monitoring in Fabric/Kusto.
~ Security & compliance with data platforms: CMK, RBAC/AAD, private networking/NSP, and multi‑tenant isolation.
~ Practical exposure to large‑message support and payload fragmentation strategies in event pipelines.

#Software Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across Canada is CAD $114,400 - CAD $203,900 per year.
Software Engineering IC4 - L'échelle salariale de base typique pour ce rôle dans l'ensemble du Canada est de 114,400 $ CAD à 203,900 $ CAD par année.
Ce poste sera ouvert pendant au moins cinq jours et les candidatures seront acceptées de façon continue jusqu’à ce que le poste soit pourvu.
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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