Software Engineer

Azure Edge + Platform brings together Edge platforms, devices, and services to deliver Edge solutions, operating systems, and engineering systems. Driven by its customers’ needs, Azure Edge + Platform seeks to accelerate growth for Azure, E&D, and Microsoft’s customers worldwide.

The organization’s portfolio spans the Cloud Edge Stack, Azure Engineering Systems, Azure Media Services - for end-to-end media workflow and analytics - and Microsoft’s Operating Systems including the Azure Host OS and Windows. This portfolio impressively powers the world with more than one billion monthly active devices.

The Azure Monitor Observability team is responsible for the core telemetry infrastructure behind Azure Monitor and all Azure Services. Monitoring is at the heart of every online service, and this team is responsible for building a highly scalable and reliable world class telemetry solution for all Microsoft engineers and all Azure customers. We’re at over 100 peta-bytes scale of daily data and growing. Joining the Azure Monitoring team is a fantastic opportunity to work with talented engineers at the heart of growth in the cloud; and help us deliver on the next set of big challenges critical for Microsoft’s growth.

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 2+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C/C++ and C#

              o OR equivalent experience.

• 2+ years of software engineering experience in production quality software, with good track record

Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

• Experience with design patterns, system architecture, distributed systems, and test-driven design
• Experience in C/C++, Rust, or other systems software languages
• Systems software (Operating systems, databases tools) experience on any platform
• Familiarity with observability, monitoring, and telemetry systems

Software Engineering IC3 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $98,300 - $193,200 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 $127,200 - $208,800 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

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until February 5, 2025

• The position requires designing and evolving the Azure Monitor Agent, that runs alongside customer’s compute workloads in the Azure cloud or on-premises, collecting telemetry signals.
• The software functions reliably and efficiently on Windows and Linux and potentially more platforms, serving a variety of workloads.
• This role requires a thoughtful and detail-oriented software engineer who takes pride in the quality and performance of the code they write and the manageability and extensibility of their solutions at cloud scale.
• This role requires understanding and practice of good design, architecture, and coding for testing/validation suites to ensure quality control.
• The role will require encompassing ownership from design through implementation of core new areas of the codebase.
• Ideal candidate performs as a Team player with a collaborative spirit and readiness to work within and across teams while demonstrating good initiative.