Microsoft

Software Engineer - Observability

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18 hours ago
Dublin, IrelandSenior

Responsibilities

  • Design, develop, and operate large-scale, multi-tenant telemetry ingestion pipelines and services for real-time and batch workloads.
  • Build APIs, tools, and subsystems for telemetry collection, routing, storage, and efficient data access.
  • Integrate machine learning-based anomaly detection and data validation capabilities.
  • Own and improve core observability platform components for reliability, scalability, performance, and data quality.
  • Implement monitoring, alerting, and diagnostics; support production reliability through on-call rotations and incident response.
  • Collaborate with partner teams on end-to-end observability solutions and contribute to technical design.
  • Mentor engineers and help establish technical direction and engineering standards.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related discipline, or equivalent experience.
  • Demonstrated experience shipping software products or services.
  • Solid understanding of data structures, algorithms, and system design fundamentals.
  • Strong problem-solving, analytical, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
  • Experience with cloud platforms such as Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud is preferred.
  • Experience building high-performance, scalable, and high-throughput systems is preferred.
  • Experience with Service Fabric, AKS, or Azure DevOps is preferred.
  • Experience debugging and resolving complex production issues is preferred.
  • Experience with AI/ML concepts or systems is preferred.
  • Ability to meet Microsoft, customer, and/or government security screening requirements, including the Microsoft Cloud background check.

Tech Stack

AWSAzureGoogle CloudWindows

Categories

BackendData Engineering
Microsoft

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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