11 hours ago
Base Salary
$120k - $261k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and build large-scale distributed services for operating system, firmware, security, and patch freshness across Microsoft 365 infrastructure.
- Develop telemetry, analytics, and reporting platforms for fleet compliance, update readiness, vulnerability exposure, firmware health, and remediation progress.
- Build intelligent detection, prioritization, forecasting, and automation services for fleet risks and remediation.
- Create safe workflows for operating system updates, firmware upgrades, security patches, configuration enforcement, and remediation orchestration.
- Build AI-assisted experiences for investigating patching failures, firmware issues, configuration drift, vulnerability exposure, and live-site incidents.
- Implement staged rollouts, health gates, rollback mechanisms, policy enforcement, and observability improvements.
- Manage lab servers, top-of-rack switches, load balancers, inventory, capacity planning, hardware installation and retirement, and test readiness.
- Configure and troubleshoot lab networking, including VLANs, virtual IP addresses, routing, addressing, connectivity, and network dependencies.
- Partner with security, hardware, firmware, operating system, infrastructure, networking, deployment, and service-owner teams.
- Participate in architecture reviews, code reviews, design discussions, and live-site operations.
- Mentor engineers and drive projects from concept through production deployment, measurement, and operational ownership.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field and 4+ years of technical engineering experience with coding, or equivalent experience.
- Coding experience in languages including C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python.
- Ability to meet Microsoft, customer, and/or government security screening requirements, including the Microsoft Cloud Background Check.
- Preferred: master's degree with 3+ years of technical engineering experience, or bachelor's degree with 5+ years of technical engineering experience, or equivalent experience.
- In-depth knowledge of operating system internals, including Windows, Linux, kernels, drivers, system services, networking stacks, crash dumps, and performance issues.
- Experience collecting, correlating, and analyzing event logs, traces, performance counters, networking telemetry, driver diagnostics, and other system-level signals at scale.
- Experience building or leveraging data pipelines such as Kusto or Azure Data Explorer to identify root causes, systemic issues, and remediation opportunities.
- Practical networking knowledge and ability to diagnose issues across server, firmware, operating system, deployment, and network layers.
Benefits
- The typical U.S. base pay range is $119,800-$234,700 per year, with a separate range for certain San Francisco Bay Area and New York City metropolitan locations.
- Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.
- The position is open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until filled.
About Microsoft
Microsoft develops operating systems, productivity software, cloud services, developer tools, and consumer devices for individuals, enterprises, and governments. Its main products include Windows, Microsoft 365, Azure, Visual Studio/GitHub, Xbox, and LinkedIn; revenue comes from software subscriptions and licenses, cloud consumption, hardware sales, and advertising. Founded in 1975 and headquartered in Redmond, Washington, Microsoft is a public company traded on Nasdaq.