Senior Software Engineer
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Designs and owns core Data Factory artifacts, including pipelines and dataflows, that support enterprise-scale data integration workloads with high throughput, fault tolerance, and performance. Understands customer and user requirements for a project or sub-section of a product and translates them into technical designs. Applies artificial intelligence (AI) tools responsibly across the full software development lifecycle, takes ownership of AI-generated assets, and experiments to improve capabilities.
Leads by example in code quality by conducting timely, insightful code reviews, upholding standards, security, and compliance, and coaching engineers using automated analysis tools integrated into the build process. Designs and owns test strategies that prevent regression, incorporate security testing, and cover edge and negative cases. Builds testable code from the start and identifies hard-to-test areas for future rearchitecture.
Leads architecture discussions for complex features by creating and iterating on design documents, evaluating trade-offs, and ensuring performance, scalability, and resiliency requirements are met. Collaborates with teams across Fabric and Azure to resolve dependency and ownership conflicts. Plans and delivers features with full lifecycle ownership by breaking work into tracked tasks, managing feature flighting and rollback plans, and automating deployments following safe-change practices.
Owns live-site reliability as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) by integrating telemetry and observability, responding to incidents within service-level agreements, driving postmortems and root-cause fixes, and improving troubleshooting guides and on-call practices. 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.
Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ 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 TypeScript, or Python OR equivalent experience. Experience building modern web applications using React, TypeScript, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, or similar technologies.
Experience designing and implementing accessible, responsive, and highly performant user experiences. Experience building customer-facing applications for cloud, analytics, data, or enterprise software platforms. Familiarity with front-end performance optimization, telemetry, experimentation frameworks, and customer usage analytics. Experience collaborating closely with UX designers to deliver polished, user-centered product experiences.
Passion for delivering modern, high-quality user experiences in browser-based environments. Strong customer focus and the ability to simplify complex technical workflows through thoughtful design and engineering. Ability to influence technical decisions and collaborate effectively across multiple engineering disciplines. A deep curiosity and willingness to question the status quo. High enthusiasm, integrity, ingenuity, results-orientation, and self-motivation in a fast-paced environment.
A love for tackling the next problem, the next experiment, and the next partnership. Committed to working collaboratively, solving problems with teams across the world, and finding win-win solutions. A deep passion and empathy for customers, leading to innovative problem-solving.
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