Software Engineer II - Front End

Microsoft•Redmond, WA

6d•$102,100 - $219,200

About The Position

Microsoft's Azure Data engineering team is a leader in transforming analytics with a comprehensive portfolio of products including Microsoft Fabric, Azure SQL DB, Azure Cosmos DB, Azure PostgreSQL, Azure Data Factory, Azure Synapse Analytics, Azure Service Bus, Azure Event Grid, and Power BI. Their mission is to build the data platform for the age of AI, powering data-first applications and fostering a data culture. The Messaging and Real-Time Analytics team within Azure Data provides solutions for ingesting, processing, and gaining insights from high-granularity signals, observability data, and complex event streams in real time. They are developing the next generation of real-time data experiences in Microsoft Fabric, enabling customers to ingest, process, visualize, and act on streaming data at massive scale. The Real-Time Hub team is central to this vision, connecting data ingestion, event processing, and downstream insights across Fabric workloads. This role is for a Software Engineer II focused on building intuitive, scalable, and high-performance front-end experiences for real-time analytics and decision-making for enterprise customers. The engineer will work across Microsoft Fabric experiences, translating complex data and streaming scenarios into seamless, customer-focused web applications and interfaces. This involves close collaboration with Product Managers, Designers, and Engineers across Microsoft Fabric to create modern, accessible, and responsive user experiences. The role includes contributing to the front-end architecture of key product experiences, ensuring usability, reliability, performance, and maintainability at scale. The team operates at the intersection of distributed systems, data platforms, and user-facing experiences, emphasizing telemetry-driven iteration, experimentation, and continuous improvement. The engineer will collaborate across teams to shape product direction, influence user experience strategy, and deliver high-quality solutions. This is an opportunity to work on highly visible products with broad customer impact, building exceptional web experiences and solving complex technical challenges related to real-time data across Microsoft Fabric.

Requirements

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, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience.
Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings: Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Nice To Haves

Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, TypeScript, or Python OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field
TypeScript, or Python OR equivalent experience.
Experience building modern web applications using React, TypeScript, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, or similar technologies.
Experience designing and implementing accessible, responsive, and highly performant user experiences.
Experience building customer-facing applications for cloud, analytics, data, or enterprise software platforms.
Familiarity with front-end performance optimization, telemetry, experimentation frameworks, and customer usage analytics.
Experience collaborating closely with UX designers to deliver polished, user-centered product experiences.
Passion for delivering modern, high-quality user experiences in browser-based environments.
Strong customer focus and the ability to simplify complex technical workflows through thoughtful design and engineering.
Ability to influence technical decisions and collaborate effectively across multiple engineering disciplines.
A deep curiosity and willingness to question the status quo.
High enthusiasm, integrity, ingenuity, results-orientation, and self-motivation in a fast-paced environment.
A love for tackling the next problem, the next experiment, and the next partnership.
Committed to working collaboratively, solving problems with teams across the world, and finding win-win solutions.
A deep passion and empathy for customers, leading to innovative problem-solving.

Responsibilities

Design, develop, and deliver modern front-end experiences using industry-standard web technologies and frameworks (TypeScript, React (or comparable frameworks).
Build intuitive, accessible, responsive, and performant user interfaces that help customers discover, analyze, and act on real-time data.
Collaborate closely with Product Management, UX Design, and engineering partners to translate customer needs into impactful user experiences.
Develop maintainable, production-ready code and contribute to engineering excellence through code reviews, testing, and continuous improvement.
Use telemetry, experimentation, and customer feedback to measure success and drive ongoing improvements in usability and performance.
Contribute to front-end architecture, shared UI components, and engineering best practices across Microsoft Fabric experiences.
Partner with services and platform teams to deliver cohesive end-to-end customer scenarios across multiple interconnected systems.
Identify and resolve reliability, scalability, accessibility, and performance issues affecting customer experiences.
Participate in architectural discussions and help make technical decisions that balance immediate business needs with long-term maintainability.
Drive improvements in automation, quality, accessibility compliance, and user experience consistency.
Collaborate effectively across teams, communicate progress clearly, and help build alignment around shared goals and customer outcomes.
Embody our culture and values.