Microsoft

Software Engineer-II

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17 hours ago
Hyderābād, IndiaMid Level

Responsibilities

  • Define Windows Fundamentals metrics, queries, cohort strategies, and measurement workflows across reliability, performance, responsiveness, power, battery life, memory, and storage.
  • Design, build, deploy, and operate backend services and data pipelines for telemetry ingestion, transformation, orchestration, storage, monitoring, diagnostics, and engineering workflows.
  • Improve service reliability, security, compliance, observability, data quality, schema evolution, deployment safety, incident response, and operational support.
  • Analyze telemetry, diagnostic signals, and traces to identify trends, anomalies, regressions, causal factors, and customer impact.
  • Investigate metric movements and service issues using statistical methods, experimentation, debugging, and performance-analysis tools.
  • Deliver automation, AI-assisted analysis, dashboards, alerts, and diagnostic workflows that reduce manual engineering effort.
  • Contribute to technical designs and code reviews, coordinate with partner teams, share findings, and mentor less-experienced engineers.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field and 4+ years of technical engineering experience with coding in C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python, or equivalent experience.
  • At least three years of software engineering experience and a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
  • At least one year of experience in backend service development, data engineering, distributed systems, large-scale analytics, systems analysis, or related work.
  • Experience developing, testing, deploying, or operating reliable production software, services, data pipelines, telemetry systems, or analytics.
  • Experience with distributed services, Azure or other cloud platforms, data pipelines, operating systems, performance engineering, or large-scale fleet analytics.
  • Experience defining metrics, establishing baselines and cohorts, investigating regressions, and communicating insights through dashboards or technical reports.
  • Experience with telemetry schemas, service APIs, orchestration, monitoring and alerting, data-quality controls, anomaly detection, or automated diagnostic workflows.
  • Experience with Kusto, Azure data platforms, privacy-conscious telemetry, statistical analysis, machine learning, AI-assisted engineering workflows, or Windows internals.
  • Ability to meet Microsoft, customer, and/or government security screening requirements, including the Microsoft Cloud background check.

Tech Stack

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BackendData Engineering
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About Microsoft

10,000+ employees

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.

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