
Microsoft
Senior Software Engineer
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Job Description
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 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, the Azure Monitor team builds services that enable customers to monitor, detect, troubleshoot, and mitigate issues with their services through an increasingly agentic experience. Azure Monitor includes Log Analytics, Application Insights, Container Insights, Hosted Prometheus, Azure Managed Grafana, and more. Additionally, Azure Monitor is the platform upon which Microsoft Sentinel is built. We have a multi-billion dollar business that is growing rapidly, and we run some of the world’s highest scale observability services both for Microsoft internally and for our external customers, processing over 1.5 Exabytes of logs daily and tracking over 100 billion active metrics. The Azure Monitor Site Reliability Team is hiring a Senior Software Engineer to drive architecture and delivery of agentic reliability platform capabilities for Microsoft Monitoring solutions. This role defines and builds platform systems for monitoring intelligence, telemetry, diagnostics, safe remediation, and operational automation used by external customers and internal Microsoft engineering teams. We do not just value differences or different perspectives. We seek them out and invite them in so we can tap into the collective power of everyone in the company. As a result, our customers are better served.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications
- 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. 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.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience building production-scale platforms, cloud services, distributed systems, or reliability automation.
- Experience architecting complex systems across service boundaries and driving execution across partner teams without direct authority.
- Experience with observability architecture, monitoring systems, incident response, service health modeling, operational automation, and production debugging.
- Solid judgment around production safety, automation risk, customer impact, security, privacy, compliance, and responsible AI-assisted and agentic automation.
- Experience leading agentic automation, AI-assisted diagnostics, autonomous remediation, intelligent operations, or reliability platform efforts.
- Experience with Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Application Insights, Kusto/KQL, Azure Resource Graph, Azure DevOps, GitHub, or similar monitoring and observability ecosystems.
- Experience creating organization-level reliability metrics such as SLO compliance, alert quality, time to detect, time to mitigate, human effort saved, automation coverage, and incident recurrence.
- Experience mentoring senior engineers and defining technical strategy across monitoring, observability, incident response, and production engineering disciplines.
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Employment Type
Full Time
Experience Level
Senior
Salary Range
$119,800 – $261,000
Location
Redmond, WA
Posted
6 days ago
Country
US