senior software engineering Backend Engineer ic Bachelor's · Posted May 18, 2026

About this role

Microsoft is hiring a senior-level Backend Engineer in the software engineering function based in Vancouver, Canada. The posting calls out experience with JavaScript, Java, C, C#. Listed education preference: a bachelor's degree or equivalent.

Role
Backend Engineer
Function
software engineering
Level
senior
Track
Individual contributor
Employment
Full-time
Location
Vancouver, Canada
Education
Bachelor's degree
Department
Software Engineering
Posted
May 18, 2026
AI Summary
Senior Backend Engineer building data engineering services and infrastructure for Microsoft Fabric. Design and develop foundational data platforms enabling organizations to process massive data volumes. Requires strong backend engineering expertise and experience with large-scale distributed systems.

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Job description

from Microsoft careers
Overview

Microsoft is a company where passionate innovators come to collaborate, envision what can be and take their careers further. This is a world of more possibilities, more innovation, more openness, and the sky is the limit thinking in a cloud-enabled world. 
 
Microsoft’s Azure Data engineering team is leading the transformation of analytics in the world of data with products like databases, data integration, big data analytics, messaging & real-time analytics, and business intelligence. The products our portfolio include 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. Our mission is to build the data platform for the age of AI, powering a new class of data-first applications and driving a data culture. 

 

​​Within Azure Data, the big data analytics team provides a range of products that enable data engineers and data scientists to extract intelligence from all data – structured, semi-structured, and unstructured. We build the Data Engineering, Data Science, and Data Integration pillars of Microsoft Fabric.​ 

​​Microsoft is a place where passionate innovators come together to collaborate, imagine what’s possible, and take their careers to new heights. In a cloud-enabled world, we embrace limitless thinking, openness, and the pursuit of bold ideas. 

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