Microsoft

Software Engineer

Bangalore · On-site · Junior · Full-time

  • c#
  • c++
  • java
  • javascript
  • python
  • azure
  • .net
  • azure devops
  • kusto
  • kql

Build backend platform services for Microsoft Fabric, a unified data stack for enterprises.

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Posted 16 Oct 2026 · found on Microsoft's own careers page

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Written from 8 current Platform postings on Microsoft's own careers page — not questions Microsoft has asked.

  1. Fabric is described as a 'high throughput and multi-tenant service.' Walk me through how you'd design tenant isolation so one noisy customer can't degrade performance for others, and how you'd detect that it's happening in production.
    From the posting: “Work with all aspects of a high throughput and multi-tenant service.``` · Collaborate effectively within the team and with partner teams across Microsoft. · Be part of the on-call rotation for maintaining service health. The fragment used: "high throughput and multi-tenant service"”
  2. You're on-call for Fabric and get paged for a sudden spike in latency affecting a subset of tenants during peak hours. Walk me through how you'd triage this.
    From the posting: “Be part of the on-call rotation for maintaining service health.”
  3. We've got a metric that says our service reliability is degrading, but you're also supposed to be shipping a new feature your product manager is excited about. How would you handle that tension?
    From the posting: “Champion operational excellence via established metrics, process governance, and policy controls for regular assessment and improvement.”
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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 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 Core Platform team in IDC Bangalore is hiring a Software Engineer. Our team builds the foundational compute platform - the operating system layer - that powers all Microsoft Fabric workloads at massive scale, serving millions of enterprise customers. You will work on real distributed systems problems and grow your impact on the reliability and performance of the platform that every Fabric experience depends on. ​​ 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

- Build and operate backend platform services (Service Fabric, capacity management, routing) that power Microsoft Fabric. - Contribute to deployment reliability and operational excellence across global Azure regions. - Improve platform resilience through testing, telemetry, and incident response. - Collaborate with workload and partner teams to deliver scalable, secure platform capabilities. - Participate in on-call rotations and help continuously improve service health.​ Embody our culture and values Qualifications ​​Required/

Minimum Qualifications

- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline, with proven experience coding in languages including, but not limited to, C#, C++, Java, JavaScript, or Python - OR equivalent experience. 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 ​​Preferred/Additional

Qualifications

- Hands-on experience with C#/.NET and cloud services (Azure). - Exposure to distributed systems, microservices, or large-scale backend services. - Familiarity with CI/CD (Azure DevOps), Kusto/KQL, infrastructure-as-code, or containers.​ Equal Opportunity Employer (EOP) Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations, and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form (Accessibility | Microsoft Careers). Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work. #azdat #azuredata ​​#fabric #fabricplatform #powerbi #backend #distributedsystems​ 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.

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