12 hours ago
Base Salary
$143k - $304k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, test, deploy, and operate highly available distributed services and automation for large-scale telemetry configuration and migration.
- Build APIs, tools, and subsystems for telemetry collection, routing, storage, and efficient data access.
- Integrate machine-learning-based anomaly detection and data validation capabilities.
- Implement monitoring, alerting, and diagnostics; operate production services through on-call rotations and incident response.
- Collaborate with partner teams to deliver end-to-end observability solutions and uphold engineering standards through design reviews.
- Drive AI-assisted and agentic development practices, including patterns for non-coding infrastructure operations and support scenarios.
- Lead backend architecture, mentor engineers, conduct technical design reviews, and communicate tradeoffs, risks, sequencing, and delivery across organizations.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field and 6+ years of technical engineering experience with coding, or equivalent experience.
- Proficiency in one or more of Rust, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python.
- Ability to meet Microsoft Cloud Background Check and applicable customer or government security screening requirements.
- Preferred: master's degree with 8+ years of experience, or bachelor's degree with 12+ years of experience, or equivalent experience.
- Preferred: experience with Rust and AKS.
- Experience building APIs, tools, and subsystems for telemetry collection, routing, storage, and data access.
- Experience with cloud-native infrastructure, distributed systems, or large-scale production services.
- Experience improving reliability, security, observability, networking, or operational excellence for live services.
- Experience partnering across teams, mentoring engineers, leading design reviews, and driving architectural alignment.
Benefits
- Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.
- The position is open for at least five days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until filled.
- The role requires passing the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire or transfer and every two years thereafter.
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.