Software Engineer-II
Microsoft · Posted Sep 30
Software, cloud computing, artificial intelligence, and hardware services
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About the role
The Windows + Devices Fundamentals team improves the reliability, performance, responsiveness, battery life, memory efficiency, and overall health of Windows devices, building and operating the services, telemetry systems, and data pipelines that turn lab and installed-base signals into trustworthy metrics and actionable diagnostics. The team works across Windows devices, silicon, and customer segments. This Software Engineer II role will independently own well-scoped backend services and data pipelines, investigate product-health signals, and deliver data-driven systems and diagnostics that advance Windows Fundamentals at scale.
What you will do
- Define and implement well-scoped Windows Fundamentals metrics, queries, cohort strategies, and measurement workflows across reliability, performance, responsiveness, power, battery life, memory, and storage.
- Design, build, deploy, and operate reliable backend services and data pipelines for telemetry ingestion, transformation, orchestration, storage, health monitoring, diagnostics, and engineering workflows.
- Apply and improve engineering practices for service reliability, security, compliance, observability, data quality, schema evolution, deployment safety, incident response, and operational support.
- Analyze large-scale telemetry, diagnostic signals, and traces to identify trends, anomalies, regressions, causal factors, and customer impact.
- Independently investigate metric movements and service issues using statistical methods, experimentation, debugging, and performance-analysis tools; translate findings into well-scoped engineering actions.
- Design and deliver automation, AI-assisted analysis, dashboards, alerts, and diagnostic workflows that detect issues earlier and reduce manual engineering effort.
- Contribute to technical designs and code reviews, resolve dependencies with partner teams, share findings, and mentor less-experienced engineers on well-understood areas.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python.
- OR equivalent experience.
- 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
- Candidates need at least three years of software engineering experience. A bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical discipline, or equivalent practical experience, is also required.
- At least one year of experience in backend service development, data engineering, distributed systems, large-scale analytics, systems analysis, or related work.
- Experience developing, testing, deploying, or operating reliable production software, services, data pipelines, telemetry systems, or analytics.
- Solid programming, debugging, software-design, data-analysis, and problem-solving skills; ability to independently execute well-scoped work, navigate partial ambiguity, and use evidence to guide decisions.
- Experience with distributed services, Azure or other cloud platforms, data pipelines, operating systems, performance engineering, or large-scale fleet analytics.
- Experience defining metrics, establishing baselines and cohorts, investigating regressions, and communicating insights through dashboards or technical reports.
- Experience with telemetry schemas, service APIs, orchestration, monitoring and alerting, data-quality controls, anomaly detection, or automated diagnostic workflows.
- Experience with Kusto, Azure data platforms, privacy-conscious telemetry, statistical analysis, machine learning, AI-assisted engineering workflows, or Windows internals.
- C, C++, C#, Python, PowerShell, and SQL/KQL; WinDbg, Windows Performance Analyzer, and ETW; Kusto, Azure services and data platforms, orchestration and monitoring systems, Power BI, statistics, experimentation, anomaly detection, machine learning, and AI-assisted analysis.
Benefits and support
- Compensation and benefits are detailed in the job posting
About Microsoft
Microsoft Corporation is a multinational technology company that develops, licenses, and supports a wide range of software products, services, and hardware devices. Best known for its Windows operating systems, Microsoft 365 productivity suite, and Xbox gaming consoles, the company has expanded heavily into enterprise cloud computing via Azure and advanced artificial intelligence solutions. As one of the world's most valuable public enterprises, it empowers individuals and businesses globally through innovative digital transformation.
- Industry
- Software
- Company size
- 228,000+ employees
- Founded
- April 4, 1975
- Location
- Redmond, Washington, USA
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Leadership
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Chief Financial Officer
Vice Chair and President
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