We believe data is key to achieving our goals.  Data informs the customer and business opportunities we go after.  Data helps ensure that customers have personalized and relevant content at their fingertips.  Data is how we gauge the health of our products.  Data is essential in these modern Windows experiences… and to power that data we need a modern data platform as well as world class data governance and processes.  We are looking for a strong, accomplished Software Engineer who is passionate about data and can help us power and foster a data-driven culture here in the Windows, Developers, and Experiences (WDX) team.  The WDX team, a part of the Windows + Devices (W+D) engineering organization, is looking for a data engineer to interpret petabytes of data and create scalable solutions that impact millions of customers all over the planet.  Help over 1 billion users become more engaged and happier with the Windows product, creating many happy customers! 

Responsibilities

  Enable the Windows, Developers, and Experiences team to do more with data across all aspects of the development lifecycle. 

• Contribute to a data-driven culture as well as a culture of experimentation across the organization.
• Provide new and improve upon existing data platform offerings with a fundamental understanding of the end-to-end scenarios.
• Collaborate with partner teams and customers to scope and deliver projects.
• Authoring and design of Big Data ETL pipelines in SCOPE, Scala, SQL, Python, or C# 
• Data extraction across a wide variety of data sources 
• Data cleaning, preprocessing, and transformation for further analysis by data analysts 
• Data Validation framework from source to endpoints ensuring data quality and integrity

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications: 

• 2+ years of experience in engineering
• Proven coding and debugging skills in C#, C++, Java, or SQL
• Ability to work and communicate effectively across disciplines and teams
• Familiarity with distributed data processing and analysis, such as Map-Reduce
• BS or MS degree in Computer Science or Engineering OR equivalent years of work experience.

Preferred Qualifications: 

• 2+ years of experience in data engineering
• Understanding and experience with data cloud computing technologies such as – Azure Synapse, Azure DataFactory, SQL, Azure Data Explorer, Power BI, PowerApps, Hadoop, YARN, Apache Spark 
• Excellent analytical skills with systematic and structured approach to software design

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.  We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form. 

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