Principal Software Engineer - Observability

Requirements:

• Partners with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a set of scenarios.
• Leads identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for a product, application, service, or platform.
• Leads by example and mentors others to produce extensible and maintainable code used across products.
• Leverages subject-matter expertise of cross-product features with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project managers) to drive multiple group's project plans, release plans, and work items.
• Holds accountability as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI), mentoring engineers across products/solutions, working on-call to monitor system/product/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions.
• Proactively seeks new knowledge and adapts to new trends, technical solutions, and patterns that will improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while also driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale and shares knowledge with other engineers.
• Bachelor'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 equivalent experience.

Nice to Haves:

• Collaborate with partner teams to meet the engineering goals in a unified manner.
• Proficiency in C# or C/C++, and strong design, implementation, and debugging skills; knowledge of scripting languages a plus.
• Deep experience with telemetry and observability standards such as OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, Parquet, Loki, or the Microsoft Observability platform.
• Experience with distributed systems, performance analysis, databases, and/or large-scale data processing.
• Strong communication skills (both written and oral).
• Ability to prioritize tasks and work independently.

What You'll Be Doing:

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.

Perks and Benefits:

• Knowledge of Azure services and observability systems a plus.
• Experience with data science, analytics, and ontology a plus.
• Experience with building cloud-scale infrastructure components.
• Awareness, passion, and experience related to cloud scale distributed design and patterns.
• Familiar with secure software design concepts.
• Proven track record of delivering projects that include multiple components.