3 days ago
Base Salary
$143k - $304k/yr
Responsibilities
- Define and drive architecture and technical roadmaps for platform reliability, observability, and operational health.
- Build unified health and telemetry capabilities connecting customer impact with application, capacity, dependency, infrastructure, and deployment signals.
- Develop safeguards for overload protection, capacity management, routing integrity, configuration consistency, automated isolation, and recovery.
- Establish practices for production validation, progressive delivery, regression detection, fault testing, and automated rollback.
- Advance distributed request tracing and diagnostics across routing, retries, failover, and asynchronous operations.
- Lead cross-team architecture efforts, mentor engineers, and convert production learnings into reusable platform capabilities and reliability improvements.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field and 6+ years of technical engineering experience with coding in C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python, or equivalent experience.
- Preferred qualifications include a master’s degree and 8+ years of experience, or a bachelor’s degree and 12+ years of experience, or equivalent experience.
- Experience with AI/ML serving platforms, high-performance computing, accelerator-based infrastructure, or compute-intensive distributed systems.
- Experience with distributed tracing, capacity management, load balancing, admission control, retries, backpressure, and graceful degradation.
- Experience designing, building, and operating large-scale distributed systems, cloud services, or complex production platforms.
- Experience with reliability engineering, observability, service health, telemetry, and production incident response.
- Ability to lead complex technical initiatives and align engineering teams across organizational boundaries.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills for explaining technical strategy and architectural decisions.
- Experience with Azure Monitoring systems in the Azure ecosystem is preferred.
Benefits
- The typical U.S. base pay range is USD $142,800–$274,800 per year; the San Francisco Bay Area and New York City metropolitan areas have a base pay range of USD $188,000–$304,200 per year.
- Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.
- The position will remain open for at least five days and accepts applications 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.