Principal Software Engineering

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, Engineering and Design (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. We are looking to hire a Principal Software Engineer.  

Team Overview: Are you interested in shaping how Microsoft’s largest platforms and services perform all aspects of observability? Want to be a builder rather than user of the telemetry platform? Want to work on one of the most critical components that are used by all the products and services? If so, look no further! 

Microsoft’s business runs on the telemetry that we receive from the intelligent cloud and edge. Our team (Observability Platform) has the charter to deliver the core telemetry platform of choice for the company. Our telemetry systems are the lifeline of Office, Azure, Windows, Xbox, and the thousands of cloud services run by our customers. The team works on Data Collection, Control, Correlation/Distributed Tracing, Curation, Metrics, Health and System Intelligence. 

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. 

Required Qualifications: 

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python

                o OR equivalent experience.

• More than 5 years of programming experience writing code in Golang, Rust or C/C++. 

• Good understanding of Linux. 

• Good understanding of micro-service architecture, Kubernetes. 

• More than 2 years of experience building monitoring products and platforms. 

• Experience in designing and implementing core components that requires good performance and reliability. 

Other Requirments:

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: 

• Ability to drive technical investigations and prototyping in a fast-paced startup environment. 

• Excellence in collaboration across teams within and outside the organization, driving and delivering on initiatives. 

• Experience with data privacy and security. 
• Good understanding of Azure. 

• Experience with General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). 

• Experience with European Union Innovation Index (EUII). 

• Experience in open-source development is preferred. 

Software Engineering IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $137,600 - $267,000 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 $180,400 - $294,000 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

Single reqs: Microsoft will accept applications for the role until September 30, 2024. 

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances.  We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.

Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.

• You will build mission critical data collection pipeline used by the largest of the organizations in the world to monitor their applications and services running on the cloud and edge environments. 

• You embrace open-source software development and contribute to the OSS community. Your work covers distributed tracing, metrics, log processing and data reliability. 

• Your customers will include the largest organizations inside Microsoft as well as big customers who are using Azure Monitor. 

• You are collaborative and work constructively across functions and groups to solve customer problems. You will contribute to a positive culture, where all members of the team can do their best work, creating an advantage out of our diverse set of backgrounds, styles and skill sets.