Data Engineer II

Overview

Shape the future of Surface by building the data backbone that powers insights, innovation, and customer delight. The Surface insights and intelligent experiences team drives strategic insights and innovation across Microsoft by transforming complex data into actionable intelligence and customer facing experiences. By connecting data, technology, and business priorities, the team ensures Microsoft stays ahead in delivering value at global scale.

As a Data Engineer II in the data services team, you will design and build scalable data pipelines, optimize data flows, and ensure the integrity and availability of mission-critical datasets. You'll partner closely with data science, analytics, product, and engineering teams to transform data and raw telemetry into actionable insights that drive both product innovation and experiences that empower partners and customers.

This opportunity will allow you to:

• Accelerate your career growth by working on high-impact, global-scale data systems.
• Develop deep technical expertise in modern data platforms, cloud services, and big data technologies.
• Hone your problem-solving skills by tackling complex challenges in performance, reliability, and data quality.

Microsoft's mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate batch and streaming data pipelines that ingest from diverse sources into cloud data platforms (e.g., ADLS Gen2/Microsoft Fabric, Synapse/Azure SQL/Cosmos DB), with strong SLAs and observability.
• Develop services and APIs that expose curated datasets and features to downstream applications and ML/analytics scenarios; contribute to backend components, testing, and performance tuning.
• Harden security and networking for data workloads (e.g., private endpoints, VNet/VPN integration, role-based access, key management), partnering with security and networking teams.
• Automate and productize: apply Dev Ops/Data Ops (Git Hub/Azure Dev Ops, CI/CD, IaC such as Bicep/Terraform) to deliver reliable releases, repeatable environments, and cost-efficient operations.
• Collaborate & document: write design docs, review code, and work cross-functionally with PMs, data scientists, and stakeholders.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• Master's Degree in Computer Science, Math, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field AND 1+ year(s) experience in business analytics, data science, software development, data modeling, or data engineering
  • OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Math, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field AND 2+ years experience in business analytics, data science, software development, data modeling, or data engineering
  • OR equivalent experience.

Preferred qualification:

• 3-5+ years building and operating data platforms/services at scale (batch + streaming), including cost management and observability (e.g., Azure Monitor/Log Analytics/Azure Data Explorer).
• Experience developing back-end services/APIs (REST/gRPC), event-driven patterns, and containerization (Docker/Kubernetes).
• Hands-on with lakehouse (e.g., Delta/Parquet) and warehouse paradigms; dimensional/semantic modeling; BI enablement (e.g., Power BI/Fabric DW).
• IaC (Bicep/Terraform), pipeline orchestration (Fabric Data Factory/Synapse/ADF), testing frameworks (unit/integration/data quality).

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Data Engineering IC3 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $100,600 - $199,000 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 $131,400 - $215,400 per year.

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