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, Experiences & Devices (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 Operating System (OS) and Windows. This portfolio impressively powers the world with more than one billion monthly active devices.

We are looking for a Principal Software Engineer role to join our team. The Azure Monitor Observability team is responsible for the core telemetry infrastructure behind Azure Monitor and all Microsoft services.  Monitoring is at the heart of every online service, and this team is responsible for building a highly scalable and reliable world class observability solution for all Microsoft engineers and all Azure customers. 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.

Responsibilities

The Principal Software Engineer role is a technical role, requiring design and architecture of the Azure Monitor Agent for Linux. Azure Monitor Agent collects telemetry signals and covers a plethora of platforms – from running alongside customer’s compute workloads in the Azure cloud and on-premises to running on the dedicated hardware under Security Enhanced Linux OS. The collected logs, counters and traces are the essential input that feeds observability, security, and analytics solutions such as Azure Security and Infrastructure Insights for cloud services. The software must function reliably, efficiently, and securely across supported platforms, serving a variety of external and internal workloads.

This Principal Software Engineer will be a technical leader who has demonstrated quality and performance of the code they write and the manageability and extensibility of their solutions at cloud scale. There is an opportunity to provide technical mentoring & leadership to other team members, and to design & spearhead implementation of key upcoming initiatives in Azure Boost, or to develop support for new cloud infrastructure types.

Demonstrated experience with writing commercial platform software is very valuable. Cloud expertise is useful. The role will encompass ownership from design through implementation of core new areas of the codebase. There will be helpful team members to learn from, and ample opportunity to develop new skills and show impact and leadership.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline AND 6+ years software design, architecture, testing & technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Rust or Python

• OR equivalent experience.

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

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

• Experience in C++/Rust or other systems software languages.

• Systems software (Operating systems, databases tools) experience on any platform.

• Familiarity with monitoring and telemetry systems.

• Team player with a collaborative spirit and readiness to work within and across teams, with good technical leadership.

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

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until June 12, 2024.

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