Microsoft Fabric is the platform quietly running behind products like Power BI, Azure Synapse, and several other data services millions of enterprises rely on daily — and this particular opening puts you directly inside the team responsible for the operating-system layer that keeps all of it running at scale.
The actual team and what it owns
This role sits within Microsoft’s Azure Data organization, specifically the Fabric Core Platform team based in IDC Bangalore. Their job is building and maintaining the foundational compute layer — essentially the operating system — that every Microsoft Fabric workload depends on, serving millions of enterprise customers globally. Products connected to this platform include Azure SQL DB, Azure Cosmos DB, Azure Data Factory, Azure Synapse Analytics, and Power BI, among others, meaning the reliability work done here has downstream impact across a genuinely large slice of Microsoft’s data ecosystem.
What the day-to-day work covers
- Building and operating backend platform services — Service Fabric, capacity management,
and routing — that power Microsoft Fabric
- Contributing to deployment reliability and operational excellence across global Azure regions
- Improving platform resilience through testing, telemetry, and incident response work
- Collaborating directly with workload and partner teams to deliver scalable, secure platform capabilities
- Participating in on-call rotations to help continuously monitor and improve service health
This is genuinely infrastructure-heavy work — closer to distributed-systems engineering than product-feature development, which is worth understanding clearly before applying if you were picturing a more UI/feature-focused software engineering role.
Baseline Qualifications
- A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical discipline, with proven coding experience in C#, C++, Java, JavaScript, or Python — or equivalent practical experience without a formal degree
- Ability to transparent