Microsoft · 4 hours ago
Senior Software Engineer - Azure Storage Observability
United States
Full-time
Remote
Mid, Senior Level
$120K/yr - $235K/yr
4+ years expMicrosoft is a leading technology company known for its innovative solutions, and they are seeking a Senior Software Engineer for Azure Storage Observability. In this role, you will design, implement, and maintain core components of the Azure Storage stack, focusing on observability, telemetry, and AI/ML integration to enhance system performance and reliability.
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Responsibilities
Architect, implement, and maintain reliable, scalable, and secure distributed systems and Application Programming Interfaces (API); write high‑quality, extensible, and diagnosable code with strong attention to performance, resiliency, and maintainability
Drive end‑to‑end observability and operational excellence by instrumenting services with robust telemetry, logging, tracing, alerting, and dashboards; improve Mean Time to Detect (MTTD)/Mean Time to Repair (MTTR) through proactive monitoring, health checks, and data‑driven Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices that raise availability and efficiency at global scale. Act as Directly Responsible Individual (DRI) for critical components and mentor engineers. Hold on‑call ownership to triage and resolve incidents; lead root‑cause analysis and postmortems; coach teammates on production readiness, safe deploys, rollback strategies, and sustainable operations
Collaborate with Program Manager (PM), User Experience (UX), and partner teams to clarify user and business needs; decompose work into project/release plans and executable items; incorporate feedback from customers, telemetry, and support channels into iterative improvements
Integrate Artificial Intelligence (AI)/Machine Learning (ML) to enhance storage intelligence and efficiency by partnering with data scientists to design and productionize Machine Learning (ML) capabilities (e.g., anomaly detection, capacity forecasting, auto‑tuning); build scalable pipelines; define online/offline evaluation, A/B Testing (A/B) experiments, and telemetry‑based model iteration
Apply modern engineering best practices across the lifecycle. Uphold high bars for code reviews, testing (unit/integration/end‑to‑end (e2e)), security, reliability, and performance; reuse and refactor shared components; enforce Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) quality gates and incremental rollouts to reduce risk
Elevate technical strategy through data‑driven insights. Use metrics, experiments, and statistical analyses to inform design trade‑offs and platform investments; advocate Artificial Intelligence (AI)/Machine Learning (ML) and observability standards; share learnings and patterns that drive consistency in monitoring and operations across teams
Qualification
Required
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++, Rust OR equivalent experience
4+ years experience with system design, distributed systems, or service-level engineering skills AI/ML integration
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
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++, Rust 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++, Rust OR equivalent experience
Benefits
Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.
Company
Microsoft
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