Software Engineering Lead

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.

Team Overview 

Our team (Observability platform) has the charter to deliver the core telemetry platform for the company. The team works on Data Collection, Control, Correlation/Distributed Tracing, Curation, Metrics, Health and System Intelligence platforms for Observability area. Every part of the company internally (Geneva, Asimov, Xpert, Aria, AppInsights etc.) and externally (Azure Monitor) depends on this team to deliver unifying telemetry capability to enable their data-led scenarios.

Microsoft’s telemetry systems ingest over 900 petabytes of data every day, operating at massive scale. Our goal is to enable the safe management of this data and help teams gain insights into the operations and performance of their systems. Our telemetry systems are the lifeline of Office, Azure, Windows, Xbox, and the thousands of cloud services run by our customers.

We’re looking for a development lead who is passionate about large scale distributed systems. This area has huge impact for all of Azure; any reliability issues in this system have direct impact to revenue for the Azure Business. If you are an engineer who has a passion for cloud services and enjoys solving critical business needs, this is a great opportunity for you.

Required Qualifications

• Engineering lead in development and design with demonstrated experience shipping products, services
• At Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, related discipline, or equivalent experience
• Experience with C#, Java, or C++
• Exprianced people manager

Preferred Qualifications:

• Proven experience designing and building large scale distributed systems with high availability requirements
• Proven experience in diverse technologies and technical challenges, both in services development and systems engineering
• Work with open source big data standards like Parquet or Avro.
• Excellent analytical skills with systematic and structured approach to software design
• Great communication and collaboration skills; comfortable presenting to senior leadership
• Demonstrated ability to drive resolution to complex problems and reaching consensus across teams
• Cloud-native mindset, including aspects of performance, reliability, scalability, resilience

Cloud Background check: 

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.

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.

• Lead, coach, and build a diverse, inclusive, high-performing team where all team members inspired to technical excellence.
• Foster and develop talented engineers capable of developing and running scalable, reliable, maintainable services.
• Leads the design and building distributed services that are secure, scalable, reliable, and performant.
• Creates, implements, optimizes, debugs, refactors, and reuses code to establish and improve performance and resilience, maintainability, effectiveness, and return on investment (ROI).
• Defines customer success metrics and engineer services to meet and exceed the goals.
• Leverages subject-matter expertise of cross-product features and partners with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project managers) to drive multiple group's project plans, release plans, and work items.
• Leads identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for a product, application, service, or platform.