*Who we are? *

　　We are the data engineering team in IC3, which is a part of the Experiences & Devices division within Microsoft and well known for its Skype history. Today, our focus is much broader: We are building the Intelligent Conversations & Communications Cloud (IC3) which powers communication services for millions of Microsoft customers around the world across products such as Skype, Microsoft Teams, Xbox, Windows, Azure, Dynamics and more. Our IC3 platform is one of the largest Azure deployments worldwide and growing rapidly. Together with partner teams across Microsoft we build and run an intelligent fabric of communication services to empower every person and organization to achieve more. We develop highly scalable and reliable backend services running on Azure, supporting millions of Microsoft customers every day. 

　　As a Senior Data Eengineer, you will be working closely with IC3 business leaders, product managers, data scientists, analysts to build data pipelines, metrics, KPI’s that answer important questions about our business metrics and provide data on how to grow our business further.

　　About the team and role

　　Are you passionate about leveraging large volumes of data sets to draw deep insights designed to improve business strategies and customer experience? Currently our team owns generating critical Business Reports, Near-Real Time Operational Insights and Anomaly Detection for Microsoft’s first-party real-time conversation products, notably Skype and Teams with many millions of users, to operate with reliable and high-quality audio and video calling, meetings, and chat services that work every time, from anywhere, on any device and next year goal is to develop self-service tooling & generate smart analytics through AI.

　　Responsibilities

　　Ship high-quality, well-tested, secure, and maintainable code.

　　Design, develop, and maintain data pipelines and back-end services for real-time decisioning, reporting, optimization, data collection, and related functions.

　　Manage automated unit and integration test suites.

　　Work collaboratively and communicate effectively with a small, motivated team of engineers and product managers.

　　Experiment with and recommend new technologies that simplify or improve the tech stack.

　　Participate in an on-call rotation and work occasional off-hours.

　　Qualifications

　　Required/Minimum Qualifications

　　Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Math, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field AND 4+ years experience in architecting, building, and maintaining end-to-end, high-throughput distributed data systems and their supporting services

　　OR Master's Degree in Computer Science, Math, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field AND 3+ year(s) experience in architecting, building, and maintaining end-to-end, high-throughput distributed data systems and their supporting services

　　OR equivalent experience.

　　Additional or Preferred Qualifications

　　Designing efficient data structures and database schemas and working with distributed systems architecture

　　4+ years exprience with utilizing a variety of data stores, including data warehouses, RDBMSes, in-memory caches, and searchable document DBs.

　　Communication skills to explain insights in an understandable way to non-experts, in both formal presentations and informal group conversations.

　　Developing for continuous integration and automated deployments.

　　Using profiling tools, debugging logs, performance metrics, and other data sources to make code- and application-level improvements.

　　Experience of incorporating data processing and workflow management tools into pipeline design.

　　Experience working with large data sets using SQL/Azure Data Lake/Spark, etc., to derive actionable insights.

　　Data Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $112,000 - $218,400 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 $145,800 - $238,600 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

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