Software Engineer 2

Join our M365 Big Data team and be part of a mission to harness the power of data! With millions of users relying on our services daily, we generate vast amounts of data that are crucial for understanding service quality, user behavior, and feature usage.  It helps us troubleshoot issues and also provides valuable insights for product and management teams, empowering them to make informed decisions and build intelligent features. 

Our team is heavily invested in various data-related areas to support the continuous growth of our business. We are currently seeking talented software engineers to join our office in Suzhou. In this role, you will work on standardizing and modernizing our telemetry infrastructure across all workloads, collaborating with different teams to empower AIOps scenarios. You will also develop solutions to simplify data onboarding and maintenance, ensure compliance and privacy during data processing, and generate insights to reduce costs and engineering efforts. 

Our mission is to increase the value of the data while at the same time taming the complexity and high cost of capturing, managing, and leveraging it. 

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 field AND 2+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
  • OR equivalent experience.
• Basic knowledge and experience of:
  • backend engineering. 
  • distributed systems.  
  • service operation for large scale distributed systems, especially AIOps technologies.  
  • industry well known telemetry standards and solutions.  
  • big data big data platform technologies.  

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:

• Solid communication skills. (Good written English, Avg+ oral English)  
• Great team work and collaboration. 
• Passionate to solve hard problems.  
• Passionate to learn new skills/knowledge.  

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. 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.

#M365CORE

• Build and standardize high quality, performant, reliable and cost-effective distributed data ingestion services across M365 workload teams.  
• Modernize telemetry usage and infrastructure to fulfill the needs in AIOps scenarios.  
• Analyze and drive telemetry infrastructure COST optimization for all M365 teams.  
• Work with Trust teams to drive standardization and enforcement efforts across M365 to meet Compliance & Privacy regulations.   
• Design and build highly efficient, aggregated, cost-effective data pipelines to generate high-value data insights to benefit service quality improvements and COST saving.  
• Responsible for the daily operations and maintenance of telemetry infrastructure and ensure quality of service.