We are looking for a Software Engineer II with Big Data background to join our team, Office Growth Activation Team (OGA). We empower Office Engineering Teams with Data, Insights, SDKs (Software development kit) and toolchain to respond to customer feedback, steer future investments, and ensure that our customers have the best experiences possible by delivering innovative modern data solutions and services, which enable new Office experiences, and richly informed hypothesis-driven agility. We also serve Enterprise Tenant Admins with Insights about Office Health, empowering them to engage and collaborate for greater productivity by processing trillions of events daily. Our highly scalable systems enable teams to derive insights related to product reliability, business, and feature success metrics.

We offer a fantastic and fun team environment with commitment to people and inclusion. We celebrate team cultural values of being:  

• Customer-obsessed (and helping everyone else live this) 

• Exceptional partners – designing and co-developing capabilities for and access dozens (to hundreds) of teams 

• Committed to continual learning and growing in building a high-trust, collaborative, diverse and deeply inclusive team environment.  

Responsibilities

• Work alongside the team to develop innovative data engineering solutions and contribute to data democratization in Office organization.

• Collaborate with Office Engineering teams to review data needs and build scalable systems to meet internal and external partner needs.

• Modernize the data platform for scale, compliance, and keeping costs in control

• Collaborate with the Data Science team in building and productizing the data science models for Reliability and Growth needs. 

Qualifications

Required/Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 2+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C#, Java, JavaScript, React, HTML, or CSS

o OR equivalent experience.

• 2+ years of experience working on data pipelines such as Spark, Cosmos, Kusto, Azure Data Factory, etc.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience building highly scalable web services, data processing, near-real-time systems and big data problems

• 3+ years of experience in building and shipping production-grade software or services in C#, C++, Java, or Python.

• Software Engineer proficient with design principles and implementation skills. 

• Experience working collaboratively with a team of engineers with a passion for learning.

• Customer obsession and ability to be a thought leader and a change agent. 

Software Engineering IC3 - The typical base pay range for this role across Canada is CAD $79,600 - CAD $153,000 per year.

Find additional pay information here:

https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/canada-pay-information.html

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, 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 (https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/accessibility.html) .