Data Engineer

Microsoft

Microsoft

Software Engineering, Data Science
USD 100,600-199k / year
Posted on Oct 31, 2025

Data Engineer

Redmond, Washington, United States

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Date posted
Oct 29, 2025
Job number
1903632
Work site
3 days / week in-office
Travel
0-25 %
Role type
Individual Contributor
Profession
Software Engineering
Discipline
Data Engineering
Employment type
Full-Time

Overview

Cloud Operations + Innovation (CO+I) is the team behind one of the World’s largest Cloud Infrastructures, responsible for powering all Microsoft online Products and Services as well as powering Microsoft’s “Cloud First” mission. Our focus is on smart growth, high efficiency, and delivering trusted experience to customers and partners worldwide, and we are looking for passionate Data Engineer to help achieve that mission.

If you want to have a fundamental impact on how Microsoft’s Cloud is deployed and operated globally, be involved with one of the most strategically important teams at Microsoft, and have strong technical and business acumen, leadership, creativity, and out-of-the-box thinking are some of the skills you bring to the table - this job is for you!

We are looking for an exceptional Data Engineer to collaborate with our data science and scheduling PM team to build solutions that improve our Data Center delivery time. As a Data Engineer, you will partner with various teams to develop business requirements to standardize the business input and develop a long-term vision and partnering cross-functionally.

In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day.

Qualifications

Required/minimum 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.
  • 1+ years experience building highly scalable applications.

Other Requirements:

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 Qualifications:

  • 5+ years of software engineering experience including building large-scale data applications.

  • Experience creating high-quality data pipelines.

  • Strong technical engineering experience with coding language including Python and SQL
  • Proven experience in version control and CI/CD tools
  • Strong experience in pioneering, scaling, and optimizing data pipelines, data storage, large-scale data processing/analytics platform, dashboards.

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.
Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay
Microsoft will accept applications and processes offers for these roles on an ongoing basis.

Responsibilities

  • Designing and implementing data solutions that drive business impact. Turning data chaos into scalable, efficient, and automated solutions.
  • Design, implement and build data models and pipelines that deliver data with measurable quality under the SLA.
  • Improve existing systems, including what areas have gaps that need to be filled, and have started working with the team and stakeholders to scope and prioritize solutions.
  • Foster and develop talented engineers capable of developing and running scalable, reliable, maintainable services.
  • Work closely with Research and Data Science to influence how optimization and modeling improve our decisions.

Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.
Industry leading healthcare
Educational resources
Discounts on products and services
Savings and investments
Maternity and paternity leave
Generous time away
Giving programs
Opportunities to network and connect

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 and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.