Microsoft · 15 hours ago
Principle Data Platform Engineer
United States, California, Mountain View
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$140K/yr - $275K/yr
6+ years expMicrosoft is at the forefront of a revolution powered by Data and AI, transforming Marketing into a true 'Frontier Organization'. As a Principle Data Platform Engineer on the Global Marketing Data Engineering team, you will build cutting-edge data platforms that enable personalized customer journeys and high impact campaigns.
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Responsibilities
Develop and implement a federated infrastructure strategy for marketing data focused on cost optimization and scalability
Develop monitoring systems and processes for Data Platform infrastructure, pipelines, usage, and access patterns
Build capabilities for data discovery, access management, policy enforcement, and lineage tracking, aligned with the DE data platform vision
Create and deploy frameworks and tools for data quality measurement and monitoring to deliver secure, sustainable, high-performing, and reliable marketing data for consumer needs
Design and roll out data storage framework and solution in line with medallion architecture and automated role-based access controls across all access layers
Establish engineering excellence through best practices, coding standards, and robust code management tooling
Collaborate with Data Product Engineering, Data Ops, and Partner Engineering teams to deliver end-to-end platform solutions
Partner with Fabric, Purview, Azure ML teams to influence product roadmaps and address feature gaps
Implement shared tools for cross-tenant Azure data intake and publishing
Deploy capabilities for data classification, tagging, retention, archival, and deletion to meet privacy policy requirements
Identify and prioritize platform improvements using incident and feedback data
Embody our culture and values
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience
Preferred
Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 12+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience
6+ years of software development lifecycle experience, including 2+ years in a lead role managing big data platforms
2+ years of Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, Bicep, ARM)
2+ years of CI/CD pipelines and DevOps automationIdentity & access management (RBAC, PIM, conditional access)
2+ years of Governance frameworks (data classification, policy enforcement, compliance controls)
Observability (OpenTelemetry, monitoring, logging, SLOs)
Incident management and reliability engineering practices
Company
Microsoft
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Funding
Current Stage
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