Senior Software Engineer - Teams Observability / Instrumentation

Overview

Microsoft Teams is core to Microsoft's vision for intelligent communications and productivity pane into modern workplace. We are fast becoming THE hub for teamwork in Office 365 with hundreds of thousands of organizations and tens of millions of users across the globe using Teams. Microsoft Teams just announced 330M daily active users, cementing it as the fastest growing collaboration platform in Microsoft history.

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to drive the processing and implementation of our Telemetry platforms. Our team's charter is to enable our feature teams to understand their customers via telemetry data and drive strategic investment to make them successful. You will provide the data to enable critical decision makers to drive strategic investments across Teams and M365 and enable over 100 engineering teams to provide world-class operational monitoring and support for Teams.

Our culture is inclusive, casual, and high energy; our team members come from diverse backgrounds, thrive through teamwork, and are grounded in our customer needs. The team collaboration space is going through rapid growth. People can learn new technologies and grow their career quickly.

About us:

• We're a savvy group of generalizing specialists; we blend years of software engineering expertise with some of the newest and most popular tools, frameworks, and methodologies to empower an entire organization to build great software.
• We pride ourselves in building and operationalizing a events data platform that collects, enriches, and cleans over 200 billion events per day.
• We deliver near real time datasets that drive business and operational KPIs across Microsoft Teams and integrated M365 products.

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.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop and maintain components that power the Telemetry infrastructure for Microsoft Teams, including AI instrumentation frameworks
• Champion best practices, tools, and processes for a data-driven, quality-focused release of Microsoft Teams as frequently as possible to our customers
• Manipulate and analyze complex, high-volume data systems for scalability and compliance.
• Collaborate closely with Engineers, Product Managers and Technical Program Managers on innovative solutions, in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

Required/minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
  • OR equivalent experience.

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:

• 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#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
  • 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#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
  • OR equivalent experience.
• Prior experience working with building AI instrumentation is a plus.
• Data driven, customer obsessed, and organized.
• Ability to perform debugging across multiple components and services.
• Experience working with AI platforms, frameworks, and APIs.

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 $158,400 - $258,000 per year.

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This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.