Microsoft

Software Engineer

Bangalore · On-site · 1+ yrs · Junior · Full-time

  • powershell
  • python

Software Engineer for Microsoft Fabric platform team on Azure Data, maintaining service reliability and performance.

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Posted 12 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 platform team is hiring a Software Engineer to help ensure the Fabric service is reliable and performant, reduce toil in maintaining the service, and provide a great experience to our customers. 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

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. · Design, implement, and refine chosen solutions in close partnership with Product Management and partner teams. · Champion operational excellence via established metrics, process governance, and policy controls for regular assessment and improvement. · Document and define existing data engineering processes, data and technology, while evaluating them for optimization.​ ​ Embody our culture and values

Qualifications

Required/Minimum Qualifications ​​​​· Min. 2 years technical experience in software engineering, network engineering, or systems administration. ​​· OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND 1+ year(s) technical experience in software engineering, network engineering, or systems administration · OR Master's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field. · 2+ years’ experience with scripting languages such as PowerShell, Python etc. · Experience writing code to automate day-to-day tasks.​​ 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 ​​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.​ 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 ​​#azdat #azuredata ​​#azdat #azuredata #sre #fabric #powerbi​ ​ 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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