Software Engineer, Fabric Core Platform

The Microsoft Fabric Core Platform team owns the compute, OS layer, capacity management, and request routing for Microsoft Fabric. This full-time individual contributor role focuses on building and running backend platform services behind Microsoft Fabric.

What you'll do

• Build and run the backend platform services that sit behind Microsoft Fabric.
• Help keep deployments reliable and operations smooth across Azure regions around the world.
• Raise service resilience through testing, telemetry and structured incident response.
• Partner with workload and partner teams to ship secure platform features that scale.
• Join the on-call rotation and keep improving overall service health.

What they ask for

• A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical discipline with proven coding experience in C#, C++, Java, JavaScript or Python, OR equivalent experience.
• Ability to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check when hired and every two years after that.

Good to have

• Hands-on work with C#/.NET and Azure cloud services.
• Exposure to distributed systems, microservices or large-scale backend services.
• CI/CD with Azure DevOps, Kusto/KQL, infrastructure-as-code or containers.

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Technical

1. How would you handle concurrency issues in a multithreaded C# or Java application?
2. Explain how load balancing works in a distributed backend system.
3. What are the key differences between SQL and NoSQL databases when designing for scale?

Scenario

1. What would you do if a production service you manage starts throwing 500 errors after a new deployment?
2. How would you investigate a sudden spike in latency for a core platform API?

HR

1. Why do you want to work on foundational platform services at Microsoft?
2. Tell me about a time you had to quickly learn a new technology for a project.

About Microsoft

1. How does Microsoft Fabric integrate various data analytics tools into a single unified platform?

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