Principal Architect_

Redmond

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, E&D, and Microsoft’s customers worldwide.

As part of AE+P, the Microsoft Observability Platform and Experience engineering 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 with Microsoft Sentinel is built. We have a >$1B dollar business that is growing rapidly. We also run some of the world’s highest scale observability services for Microsoft internally, processing over 600PB of logs daily and tracking over 100 billion active metrics.

As Principal Architect for the Observability team you will help design and scale the observability platform to meet the future demands of increasingly complex workloads including those rapidly emerging from AI and AIOps. Additionally, you will play a key role in ensuring solutions will work across a wide variety of workloads to ensure efficiency in engineering and that consistent capabilities are provided. The observability platform plays a critical role in ensuring the quality and reliability of the products that Microsoft and our customers ship.

Our mission is to provide end-to-end observability for 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, Fortune 500 companies, and startups. Our aim is to enable autonomous, integrated systems infused with AI/ML to proactively measure, monitor, detect, alert, diagnose, and mitigate health issues before they impact customers.

We’re on a mission to build the best 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.

**Responsibilities**

+ Work with teams across Observability to design and build scalable, high-performance services that are highly reliable.

+ Drive the end-to-end architecture by understanding deeply Azure Monitor, Watson, Profiler, Geneva and other relevant technology.

+ Stay grounded in the services by also writing and reviewing code.

+ Be enthusiastic, self-motivated, and a great collaborator

+ Be passionate about making customers successful.

+ Stay informed about industry trends, emerging technologies, advancements in service health, and identify opportunities for innovation within the field.

+ Embody our culture and values .

**Qualifications**

**Required Qualifications:**

+ Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline 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

+ 6+ years of experience with distributed systems design and implementation

**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:**

+ Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 12+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python

+ OR Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 10+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python

+ OR equivalent experience

+ Excellent communication skills, both technical and non-technical, with the ability to convey complex ideas to various stakeholders

+ Passion for quality

+ Ability to influence broadly towards common goals and priorities

+ Experience with microservices architecture, Kubernetes, Linux, Open Telemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, and related technologies

+ Experience with building observability systems

Software Engineering IC6 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $161,600 - $286,200 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 $209,600 - $314,400 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:

icrosoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

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

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