Software Engineering Internship Opportunities

Start Date: July 2026

Contract Type: Internship (40hrs/week)

Duration: 12-weeks

Come build community, explore your passions, and do your best work at Microsoft with thousands of University interns from every corner of the world. This opportunity will allow you to bring your aspirations, talent, potential—and excitement for the journey ahead.

As a Software Engineering Intern on the Fabric team, you will collaborate with teammates to solve complex data engineering challenges and build innovative software solutions that power large-scale analytics. You’ll contribute to the design and development of systems that ingest, transform, and serve data across Microsoft’s ecosystem, enabling critical insights and decision-making.

You’ll apply your passion for customers and product quality as you provide technical guidance to Technical Program Managers and Product Managers, especially in areas like data modeling, pipeline optimization, and query performance. You’ll learn and adopt relevant new technologies, tools, methods, and processes to leverage in your solutions.

This opportunity will enable you to advance your career by designing, developing, and testing next-generation data infrastructure that empowers every person and organization on the planet to achieve more.

At Microsoft, interns work on real-world projects in collaboration with teams across the world, while having fun along the way. You’ll be empowered to build community, explore your passions, and achieve your goals. This is your chance to bring your solutions and ideas to life while working on cutting-edge data technologies.

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

• Apply engineering principles to solve complex problems through sound and creative engineering, particularly in the areas of distributed data querying and storage.
• Work with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for features that support scalable and reliable data pipelines.
• Quickly learn new engineering methods and incorporate them into work processes, including technologies like Spark, Azure Data Lake, Synapse, and internal Microsoft data platforms.
• Demonstrate skill in time management and completing software projects in a cooperative team environment, often involving cross-functional collaboration with analytics, product, and infrastructure teams.
• Review current developments and proactively seek new knowledge that will improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of data systems—while also driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale.
• Explore opportunities to improve data discoverability and governance, contributing to the team’s efforts in building a robust and compliant data ecosystem.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

• Currently pursuing Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field

- Must have at least 1 semester/term remaining following the completion of the internship

• Programming experience in an object-oriented language
• You must be legally authorised to work in the Spain to be eligible for this role (Legally authorised = has citizenship or has been granted a valid visa or work permit)
• Fluent in English

Preferred Qualifications

• Ability to demonstrate an understanding of computer science fundamentals, including data structures and algorithms

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