Observability: Design and help maintain monitoring, alerting, and logging systems to provide real-time visibility into platform performance
Automation & Tooling: Lead building of automation for deployments, incident response, scaling, and failover in hybrid cloud/on-prem environments.
Incident Management: Lead on-call rotations, troubleshoot production issues, conduct blameless postmortems, and drive continuous improvements.
Security & Compliance: Ensure data privacy, compliance, and secure operations across serving environments.
Collaboration: Partner with ML engineers and platform teams to improve developer experience and accelerate research-to-production workflows.
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.
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.
Preferred Qualifications
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.
4+ years managing Linux and open source systems.
4+ years people management experience.
6+ years experience in monitoring & observability tools (Grafana, Datadog, OpenTelemetry, etc.).
Experience migrating complex systems from on-prem to public cloud
Experience using Infrasturcture-as-code (e.g. Terraform, Bicep) to manage complex systems
Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines
Solid knowledge of distributed systems, networking, and storage.
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Software Engineering M4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $119,800 - $234,700 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $160,200 - $261,000 per year.
- Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:
- https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay
This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.
