Microsoft Principal Software Engineer - Observability 

Taiwan, Taoyuan City 

737103534

client andto the future of Microsoft. OneDrive and SharePoint (ODSP) are the set of intelligent, high value services andenvironment thatis enablingthe next generation of transformative end-user experiences for Office and the entire company. The ODSP team has an opportunity for youin on designing and building a core part of theobservability ecosystem that is critical to how we deliver world-class reliability for our customers, safely and in compliance with global regulations and policies.

ThisPrincipal Software Engineerposition is for an Individual Contributor (IC) on the ODSPthe management and usage of telemetry generated by our services and clients.

The service isglobally distributed, highly available and resilien, and has very high demands for a robust observability ecosystem that is compliant withgeo-regional policies and regulations.

Your responsibility will be to analyze, design, and implement improvements tohow the service generates and processes telemetry, how those.Key goals are to improveperformance and security, reduce Cost of Goods Sold (COGS), and drive those changes across multiple productsin both ODSP and Microsoft.

telemetry ecosystems,databases, storage, high performance datastructures, andobservability.

She/He should have a strong development background, excellent communication skills, anda strong foundationin Computer Science.  Lastly, because the work is done indirectly on behalf of a large team, influencing without authority is key to success.

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.

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

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:

• Knowledge of Azure servicesand observabilitysystems a plus.
• Experience withdata science,analyticsand ontologya 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.
• Proventrack recordof delivering projects that include multiple components.

• 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.