Microsoft

Software Engineer II and/or Senior Software Engineer

Microsoft$102K — $202K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field with 2+ years of experience in coding (C, C++, Rust) OR equivalent experience.
  • Master's Degree in Computer Science or equivalent with 6+ years of experience OR Bachelor's Degree with 8+ years of experience.
  • Experience with Rust programming language is highly preferred.
  • Knowledge of observability systems and telemetry pipelines is a plus.
  • Experience with Kubernetes, containers, and large-scale data processing systems.

Responsibilities

  • Design, implement, and test services for Azure Monitor and observability workloads.
  • Take ownership of features from requirements to operational support.
  • Build telemetry pipelines, monitoring components, and platform infrastructure.
  • Utilize AI tools throughout the software development lifecycle to enhance capabilities.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver value to customers.
  • Contribute to architecture discussions and provide technical input on designs.
  • Enhance reliability via automation, monitoring, and thorough testing.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health benefits package.
  • Retirement savings plans with matching contributions.
  • Paid time off and flexible work arrangements.
  • Opportunities for professional development and career growth.
  • Employee discounts and wellness programs.
Full Job Description
Overview

The Azure Monitor Pipeline and Agent teams are looking for Software Engineer II and Senior Software Engineer to help us accelerate modernization of reliable and cost-efficient managed telemetry pipelines delivering observability data from Azure and the Edge to a plethora of destinations. This includes data collection, processing, transformations, and egress, all with a particular focus on security, privacy, and performance. Beyond individual contributions, you'll collaborate across teams, mentor engineers, and help establish technical direction and engineering standards as the platform evolves, enabling strategic growth.

Within Microsoft Fabric, the Azure Monitor team builds services that enable customers to monitor, detect, troubleshoot, and mitigate issues with their services through an increasingly agentic experience. Azure Monitor includes Log Analytics, Application Insights, Container Insights, Hosted Prometheus, Azure Managed Grafana, and more. Additionally, Azure Monitor is the platform upon which Microsoft Sentinel is built. We have a multi-billion dollar business that is growing rapidly, and we run some of the world's highest scale observability services both for Microsoft internally and for our external customers, processing over 1.5 Exabytes of logs daily and tracking over 100 billion active metrics.

Responsibilities

- Design, implement, test, and operate products and services supporting Azure Monitor and observability workloads.
- Own feature areas from requirements through development and operational support.
- Build telemetry pipelines, monitoring components, data collection agents, or platform infrastructure.
- Use appropriate AI tools and practices across the software development lifecycle and experiment with them to improve capabilities.
- Collaborate with product management, partner teams, and service owners to deliver customer value.
- Participate in architecture/design discussions and provide technical input on feature designs.
- Improve product and service reliability through automation, monitoring, alerting, and testing.
- Investigate and resolve production incidents, performance bottlenecks, and reliability issues.
- Conduct code reviews and contribute to engineering excellence initiatives.
- Identify technical debt, modernization, and cost efficiency opportunities and create plans to address them.

Embody our culture and values

Qualifications

Required/Minimum 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++, Rust, OR equivalent experience.

Job Requirements: Other & Additional

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/Additional 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#, Rust 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#, Rust OR equivalent experience.
  • Demonstrated experience with Rust coding language.
  • Demonstrated experience with observability systems, telemetry pipelines, monitoring platforms, Open Telemetry, or cloud-native infrastructure.
  • Demonstrated experience with Kubernetes, containers, cloud platforms, or large-scale data processing systems.


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Software Engineering IC3 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $102,100 - $202,200 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 $133,800 - $219,200 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

Software Engineering IC4 - 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.

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