Microsoft's Partner Center & Marketplace is looking to build and improve the foundational data processing services that enable partners to thrive, simplify business with Microsoft, and help customers discover and deploy solutions. The Rewards Core Platform team specifically aims to engineer and operate real-time data solutions for accurate, timely, and secure incentive payouts to Microsoft partners, optimizing large-scale data pipelines and delivering trusted insights.
Requirements
- Industry experience with applying AI-assisted coding tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot) and large language models (LLMs) such as GPT or Claude Sonnet.
- 2+ years experience designing and building data pipelines using Spark-based technologies (e.g., Synapse, Databricks, or similar), with understanding of SQL fundamentals.
- 2+ years experience maintaining and operating data processing services in a production environment.
- 2+ years experience with Delta Lake (batch or streaming), including schema evolution, partitioning, and performance optimization.
- Familiarity with event streaming platforms (e.g., Event Hubs, Kafka) and real-time processing systems.
- coding in languages including, but not limited to, C-Sharp, Java, JavaScript, Scala, Python or equivalent experience.
- coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C-Sharp, Java, JavaScript, Scala or Python
Responsibilities
- Creates and implements code for a product, service, or feature, reusing code as applicable.
- Acts as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) working on-call to monitor system/product feature/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions and gains approval to restore system/product/service for simple problems.
- Remains current in skills by investing time and effort into staying abreast of current developments that will improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while also driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale.
- Contributes to the identification of dependencies, and the development of design documents for a product area with little oversight.
- Works with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a set of features.
- Contributes to efforts to break down larger work items into smaller work items and provides estimation.
- engineer and operate real-time data solutions that enable accurate, timely, and secure incentive payouts for Microsoft partners.
Other
- Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role.
- This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
- Success in this role means you are curious, eager to learn, and able to deliver reliable, high-quality features that improve partner and customer experiences.
- You’ll grow by seeking feedback, sharing ideas, and learning from others, knowing that innovation comes from diverse perspectives and continuous learning.
- Throughout, you demonstrate Microsoft’s values of respect, integrity, and accountability, fostering a culture where everyone can thrive.
