New

Software Engineer II

Microsoft
$100,600.00 - $199,000.00 / yr
United States, Washington, Redmond
Jan 14, 2026
Overview Commerce + Ecosystems (C+E) is responsible for enabling and optimizing the end-to-end customer journey on the Microsoft Cloud. C+E's Commerce Financial Platforms (CFP) teamis responsible forFinancial Platforms, Global Payments Platforms, Employee Financial Experiences, and C+E Compliance,and alsodevelops andoperatesfinancial commerce platforms and tools that perform all revenue management functions for our customers, partners, and staff worldwide. Are you driven by the challenge of designing enterprise-scale distributed systems? Does building a cutting-edge global payments platform in a cloud-first environment motivate you? Are you ready to build compelling interfaces to bring new and innovative ways for customers to interact with our payment experiences? If you're passionate about solving complex engineering problems and delivering impact through high-quality systems, we encourage you to apply. We are the Payments engineering team within the Global Payments Platform (GPP) organization, a core platform in the Commerce & Ecosystem group at Microsoft. Our mission is to build and operate the backbone of Microsoft's commerce capabilities-delivering seamless payment experiences, enforcing top-tier security and compliance, and ensuring high reliability and performance across global transactions. Our services support major Microsoft business units including Xbox, Office 365, Azure, Entra, Microsoft Store, and Edge, and are deployed in over 200 countries. We are looking for an experienced data engineer to develop the data strategy to shape the next generation of fintech experiences and platform capabilities for Microsoft's ecosystem of products. As a data engineer, you will be responsible for designing and executing payment-wide data architecture. You will help to set the stage for payments to be a data-led organization and will align with product and cross functional teams, strategize, and define engagement models and surface areas to address and help us manage our business more effectively in terms of customer credit, enhanced cart performance, subscription churn rates, payment approval rates, payment anomalies, AI/Copilot models, and more. Youwill be part of a team that owns all current payment data models including the ingestion and processing pipelines and outputs. This strategic role will be accountable for executing on data for 1P, 3P, Cash, liquidity position, payments strategy across all Microsoft product teams such as gaming, advertising, E&D, Azure, LinkedIn, HoloLens, and GitHub, along with Microsoft CELA and Finance. The ideal candidate hasasuccessfultrack recordworking in data engineering roles that marry user experience, platform capabilitieswith requirements impacting an ecommerce platform.Customer empathy, outstanding communication, excellence in distilling ambiguity, FinTech/Fin Services or ecommerce, and runningcomplex technical and business programs in parallel are must-haves to be successful in this role that will be central around executing on an overall Microsoft Payments strategy that spans both consumer and commercial businesses. In addition to the data platform development work, the position also includes building andmaintainingexisting financial reconciliation solutions for Microsoft, ensuring alignment between Microsoft and its financial partners. 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 Data Requirements and Modeling Supports collaborations withappropriate stakeholdersandrecordsand documents data requirements. Evaluates projectplanto understand data costs, access, usage, use cases, and availability for business or customer scenarios related to a product feature. Contributes to theappropriate datamodel for the project and drafts design specification documents to model the flow and storage of data for specific parts of a data pipeline. Works with senior engineers andappropriate stakeholders(e.g., Data Science Specialists) to contribute basic improvements to design specifications, data models, or data schemas, so that data is easy to connect, ingest, has a clear lineage, and is responsive to work with. Participates in code reviews and provides constructive feedback to team members.Usesknowledge ofone or more usecases to implement orchestration techniques that automate data extraction logic from one source to another. Uses basic data protocols and reduction Data Management and Transformation Assesses data quality and completeness using queries, data wrangling, and basic statistical techniques. Helps others merge data into distributed systems, products, or tools for further processing. Designs andmaintainsassigned data tools used to transform, manage, and access data. Writes efficient code to test andvalidatestorage and availability of data platforms and implements sustainable design patterns to make data platforms more usable and robust to failure and change. Works with others to analyze relevant data sources that allow others to develop insights into data architecture designs or solution fixes. Operational Excellence Follows existing documentation to implement performance monitoring protocols across a data pipeline. Therebyimproves onthe current processes for metric collections and evangelizes it across the team. Performs root cause analysis in response to detected problems/anomalies toidentifythe reason for alerts and implement basic solutions that minimize points of failure. Implements and monitors improvements across assigned product feature toretaindata quality andoptimalperformance (e.g., latency, cost) throughout the data lifecycle. Usescost analysis to suggest solutions that reduce budgetary risks. Works with others to document the problem and solution through postmortem reports and shares insights with team or leadership.Providesdata-based insights into the health of data products owned by the team according to service level agreements (SLAs) across assigned features. Qualifications Required Qualifications: Bachelor's Degree in Computer Scienceor related technical field AND 2+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or PythonOR equivalent experience. Preferred Qualifications: Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Math, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering , or related field AND 5+ years' experience in data engineering, data science, software development, or data modelingOR Master's Degree in Computer Science, Math, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering or related field AND 4+ year(s) experience in data engineering or data scienceOR equivalent experience. Meaningful experience in following technologies: Python, SQL Experience and interest in Cloud platforms such as Azure (preferred) or AWS Experience in Distributed Processing using Apache Spark, Databricks Expert in creating data structures optimized for storage and various query patterns for e.g., Parquet and Delta Lake Meaningful experience in at least one database technology such as: Traditional RDBMS (MS SQL Server, Oracle) NoSQL (MongoDB, Cassandra, Neo4J, Cosmos DB, Gremlin) Software Engineering IC3 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $100,600 - $199,000 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 $131,400 - $215,400 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.