Principal Software Engineer -Observability Platform
 Microsoft | |
 United States, Washington, Redmond | |
 Nov 23, 2024 | |
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OverviewThe Microsoft Observability Platform and Experience engineering team is seeking a Principal Software Engineer - Observability Platform. The team is responsible for both the external and internal observability product offerings. These services enable customers to monitor, detect, troubleshoot, and mitigate issues with their services. Azure Monitor is our product family and includes Log Analytics, Application Insights, Container Insights, Hosted Prometheus, and more. Additionally, Log Analytics is the platform upon which Microsoft Sentinel is built. We have a multi-billion dollar business that is growing rapidly. We run some of the world's highest scale observability services both for Microsoft internally and for our external customers, processing over 1 Exabyte of logs daily and tracking over 100 billion active metrics.As a high-level software engineer for the Observability team you will help design and build services in the Observability Platform to meet the future demands of increasingly complex workloads including those rapidly emerging from Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Artificial Intelligence for IT Operations (AIOps). The Observability Platform plays a critical role in ensuring the quality and reliability of the products that Microsoft and our customers ship. This is a great opportunity for someone who loves to tackle deep technical challenges and strives for industry-wide impact.Our goal is to provide end-to-end observability for the Cloud and Edge and enable all customers to efficiently operate and provide high quality experiences with their apps, services, and infrastructure. Our customers include Microsoft itself, Fortune 500 companies, and startups. Our aim is to enable autonomous, integrated systems infused with AI/ Machine Learning (ML) to proactively measure, monitor, detect, alert, diagnose, and mitigate health issues before they impact customers.We're on a mission to build the greatest observability services on the planet. If that mission excites you, come join us! 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. In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day.
ResponsibilitiesWork with teams across Observability to design and build scalable, high-performance services that are highly reliableLead by example in delivering high quality code that is maintainable, performant, testable and used across our servicesMentor others to produce extensible and maintainable codeExplore new areas and work on special projects to push the boundaries of ObservabilityStay informed about industry trends, emerging technologies, advancements in service health, and identify opportunities for innovationEmbody our culture and values | |