Software Engineer II Microsoft
Redmond, WA

Job Description

PIE's Vision is to make it easy for everyone to create, consume, and manage planetary-scale, reliable cloud production services and infrastructure to achieve more. As a team, we bring together significant and complementary capabilities with tooling, infrastructure, monitoring and insights in new ways to increase our perspective. Our diversity of knowledge and experience comes together for the benefit of our users, our colleagues, our business, and ourselves.

This position is for someone who is:

* Passionate about distributed systems and building high scale services
* Enjoys the challenge of pushing big data while driving real-time latency
* Loves new technological challenges and excels at solving them
* Excels at identifying bottlenecks and engineering solutions for performance sensitive data pipelines

This position will be responsible for building the next generation of Azure's metric system. This system collects platform and custom metrics from the entire Azure fleet and enables visualization and monitoring of the systems in near real-time. Additionally, it provides Azure's customers with the same capabilities for the resources that they own within Azure.

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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.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.

Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.

On the Geneva Metrics team, we build high scale services that ingest, aggregate and query near-real-time metric data. Our team brings powerful data insights to Microsoft engineers as well as Azure customers around the world. As a Senior Software Engineer, you will shape the future of our query and configuration services by designing and developing high impact features for our customers. As a member of our team, you will participate in all stages of our engineering lifecycle - from initial research and discovery, quick iteration on promising concepts, solution prototyping and development, all the way through successful service roll out and live site support. Developers in the team have the opportunity to wear multiple hats and demonstrate breadth, depth, and leadership.