Senior Software Engineer - Metrics Infrastructure
About The Position
Microsoft's Azure Data engineering team is leading the transformation of analytics in the world of data with products like databases, data integration, big data analytics, messaging & real-time analytics, and business intelligence. The products in our portfolio include Microsoft Fabric, Azure SQL DB, Azure Cosmos DB, Azure PostgreSQL, Azure Data Factory, Azure Synapse Analytics, Azure Service Bus, Azure Event Grid, and Power BI. Our mission is to build the data platform for the age of AI, powering a new class of data-first applications and driving a data culture. Within Microsoft Fabric, we are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to help us build the foundational layer of the Time Series Database for Azure Monitor. On this team, you’ll work on how trillions of signals from Microsoft’s intelligent cloud are ingested, processed, and turned into reliable, real time insights. We own the core telemetry ingestion pipelines that handle more than 100 petabytes of data every day and underpin observability across Azure, Office, Windows, Xbox, and a broad ecosystem of customer applications. This role is involved in solving the hard problems of scale, with strict requirements on throughput, reliability, correctness, and operability, and offers meaningful ownership over systems that run continuously at global scale. Beyond individual contributions, you’ll collaborate across teams, mentor engineers, and help establish technical direction and engineering standards as the platform evolves. We embrace a fast-paced, startup-like culture focused on shipping early and often, with an emphasis on attention to detail, introspection, and accountability. Collaboration is at the heart of our team. We build on each other’s ideas and empower engineers to innovate from the ground up, delivering world-class value at speed. What we build: Low-latency data ingestion and processing pipelines. Highly scalable, resilient microservices hosted in the cloud. Availability indicators, monitoring, and auto-mitigation software. Deployment and operational tooling. If you’re passionate about building systems that power Azure’s observability and health at hyperscale, and thrive in an environment that values creativity, collaboration, and technical excellence, we’d love to hear from you. At Microsoft, our mission is to empower every person and organization on the planet to achieve more. We foster a culture of inclusion, growth, and innovation, built on values of respect, integrity, and accountability. If you're passionate about driving meaningful impact, solving complex problems, and contributing to a growing organization, we would love to hear from you.
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience.
- Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role.
- This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
Nice To Haves
- Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience.
- Experience with large scale distributed systems
Responsibilities
- Lead design and code reviews across feature areas and participate in all stages of our engineering lifecycle (initial research and discovery, quick iteration on promising concepts, solution prototyping and development, deployment and live site support).
- Wear multiple hats and demonstrate breadth, depth, and leadership.
- Work with multiple partner teams and deploy across all Azure regions.
- Be passionate about distributed systems and planetary scale services.
- Enjoy the challenge of pushing big data on near real-time latencies.
- Drive innovation within a product and become an industry leader.
- Love new technological challenges and excel at solving them.
- Excel at identifying bottlenecks and engineering solutions for performance sensitive data pipelines.
- Write well-crafted, well-tested, readable and maintainable code.
- Participate in code reviews to ensure code quality and distribute knowledge.
- Share knowledge by giving tech talks, and evangelizing appropriate tech and engineering best practices.
- Embody our culture and values.
Benefits
- Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
