Software Engineer II - Finance Data & Experiences

Overview

Are you passionate about AI, data, and transformative user experiences? Do you bring energy, curiosity, and a sense of ownership to your work?

The Finance Data & Experiences (FD&E) organization is on a mission to redefine how Microsoft measures, monitors, and optimizes its global business, and we're looking for top talent to join us. This is a unique opportunity to lead with bold ideas, apply cutting-edge technology, and work across Finance, Sales, Marketing, Business Operations, and Product Engineering to deliver high-impact business solutions. The right candidate will thrive in fast-paced, cross-functional environments, bring fresh thinking to complex problems, and be eager to learn, take ownership of end-to-end processes, and deliver outcomes.

At FD&E, you will help build reliable, scalable, and secure data solutions that power decision-making, business insights, automation, and AI-driven experiences. You will work across data engineering and software engineering disciplines, contributing to data pipelines, data platforms, services, analytics products, and engineering systems that support Microsoft's global business.

Microsoft's mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees, we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day, we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, test, and maintain reliable data pipelines, data transformations, and data services that support business reporting, analytics, AI, and product experiences.

• Partner with stakeholders across Finance, Sales, Marketing, Business Operations, and Product Engineering to understand requirements and translate them into clear, incremental technical deliverables.

• Develop and maintain code, data processing logic, and automation using modern engineering practices, with a focus on extensibility, maintainability, reliability, and testability.

• Explore design options for data and software solutions, document tradeoffs, and incorporate feedback from more experienced engineers and partner teams.

• Build and improve data quality checks, validation, monitoring, and telemetry to detect issues early and improve trust in business-critical data assets.

• Participate in code reviews and data pipeline reviews to ensure solutions meet team standards, include appropriate test coverage, and consider diagnosability, reliability, privacy, security, and maintainability.

• Contribute to secure-by-design data solutions by applying privacy, compliance, access control, and security best practices for data movement, storage, and consumption.

• Use AI tools and disciplined engineering practices to improve productivity, quality, documentation, testing, and supportability across the software development lifecycle.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

• Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 2+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Masters Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 3+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python

• OR Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 5+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python

• OR equivalent experience.

• Experience with cloud-scale data platforms, distributed data processing, data warehousing, lakehouse architectures, or modern analytics platforms.

• Experience designing, building, testing, and maintaining data pipelines, data processing jobs, data models, APIs, services, or related engineering systems.

• Experience with ETL/ELT processes, orchestration, telemetry, monitoring, CI/CD, automated testing, and operational support for production systems.

• Experience building solutions that enable AI, machine learning, business intelligence, reporting, experimentation, or data-driven decision making.

• Familiarity with Azure data technologies and analytics platforms such as Microsoft Fabric, Synapse Analytics, Databricks, Spark, Cosmos DB, SQL, Kusto, or similar technologies.

• Proficiency in SQL and at least one general-purpose programming language such as Python, C#, Java, or Scala.

• Understanding of software engineering fundamentals, including data structures, algorithms, source control, testing, debugging, and code reviews.

• Understanding of data quality, reliability, privacy, security, and governance considerations for production environments.

• Demonstrated ability to collaborate effectively across disciplines, communicate clearly, and learn quickly in a fast-paced environment.

• Demonstrated curiosity, ownership, and comfort working through ambiguity while delivering results with guidance from engineers.

Software Engineering IC3 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $102,100 - $202,200 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 $133,800 - $219,200 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

This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

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