Senior Software Engineer

Microsoft

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About The Position

Azure is the fastest-growing business in Microsoft’s history and the foundation of Microsoft’s commercial cloud services. Within Azure Core, we are advancing Foundational Observability, elevating existing standards and introducing innovations that set a new benchmark for reliability and resilience. As a Senior Software Engineer, you will design and build solutions that deliver step-change improvements in telemetry, detection, and recovery across core infrastructure and foundational services. Your work will enable rapid, localized issue detection and resilient recovery at global scale, ensuring Azure Core meets the highest standards of performance and operational excellence. You will collaborate across Azure and partner teams to integrate with existing systems while introducing modern approaches that maximize impact and efficiency. This role also involves leveraging and contributing to open-source frameworks and communities. You will work in a fast-paced environment, solving complex problems that require creativity and teamwork to deliver meaningful business outcomes. Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

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.
• 3 years of experience designing and building backend distributed systems or cloud-scale services.
• 3 years of experience collaborating with cross-teams and delivering high-quality solutions.
• 2 years of experience with service reliability engineering and incident management for mission-critical systems.
• Other Requirements: Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings:
• Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Nice To Haves

• 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 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 equivalent experience.
• 1 year of experience with observability (telemetry, logging, metrics, detection) and operational excellence.
• Familiarity with open-source frameworks and standards related to observability.
• Track record of improving system reliability and performance at scale.

Responsibilities

• Collaborates with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a scenario.
• Drives identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for a product, application, service, or platform.
• Creates, implements, optimizes, debugs, refactors, and reuses code to establish and improve performance and maintainability, effectiveness, and return on investment (ROI).
• Leverages subject-matter expertise of product features and partners with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project managers) to drive a workgroup's project plans, release plans, and work items.
• Acts as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) and guides other engineers by developing and following the playbook, working on call to monitor system/product/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions, alerting stakeholders about status and initiates actions to restore system/product/service for simple and complex problems when appropriate.
• Proactively seeks new knowledge and adapts to new trends, technical solutions, and patterns that will improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while also driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale.
• Other · Embody our culture and values

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level