Software Engineering IC2
Microsoft · Posted Oct 15
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 signals from labs and the installed base into trustworthy metrics, actionable diagnostics, and measurable engineering improvements. The role is a Software Engineer position focused on data-driven systems that reveal how Windows devices behave at scale. The engineer will work with experienced engineers to build reliable backend services and data pipelines, analyze product-health signals, and deliver improvements that advance Windows Fundamentals across devices, silicon, and customer segments.
What you will do
- Contribute to Windows Fundamentals metrics, queries, cohort definitions, and measurement workflows across reliability, performance, responsiveness, power, battery life, memory, and storage.
- Develop, test, and maintain well-scoped components of backend services and data pipelines for telemetry ingestion, transformation, orchestration, storage, monitoring, diagnostics, and engineering workflows.
- Apply sound engineering practices for service reliability, security, compliance, observability, data quality, deployment safety, and operational support.
- Analyze telemetry, diagnostic signals, and traces, with support from experienced engineers, to identify trends, anomalies, regressions, and customer impact.
- Investigate data and service issues using debugging, statistical, and performance-analysis tools; document findings and contribute to engineering actions.
- Build automation, dashboards, alerts, and diagnostic workflows that detect issues earlier and reduce manual engineering effort.
- Collaborate with team members and partner teams, participate in design and code reviews, and continuously develop technical expertise in services, data engineering, and Windows Fundamentals.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline with proven experience coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python. OR equivalent experience.
- 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
- Candidates need at least one year of software engineering experience. A bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical discipline, or equivalent practical experience, is also required.
- Experience gained through coursework, internships, projects, or professional work in software development, backend services, data engineering, debugging, analytics, or related areas.
- Understanding of software engineering fundamentals, including testing, code quality, maintainability, data structures, and basic service or data-pipeline concepts.
- Solid programming, analytical, debugging, and problem-solving skills; ability to learn new technologies, incorporate feedback, and use data to support decisions.
- Coursework, internship, project, or professional experience with distributed services, cloud platforms, data pipelines, operating systems, or large-scale analytics.
- Familiarity with telemetry, metrics, SQL or KQL, data visualization, statistical analysis, performance engineering, or Windows internals.
- Exposure to service monitoring, data-quality validation, automation, machine learning, or AI-assisted engineering workflows.
- Experience collaborating on team projects and communicating technical ideas clearly.
- 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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