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Software Engineer II and/or Senior Software Engineer - Backend

Microsoft· Software Engineering
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Redmond, WA$102.1k - $202.2kFull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Azure Monitor backend-focused software engineer role within the Azure Data / Fabric ecosystem, building and evolving highly scalable, distributed telemetry and observability services, with AI-assisted capabilities and strong emphasis on reliability, security, and collaboration.

Responsibilities

  • Design, implement, test, deploy, and operate highly available distributed services and automation used to configure and migrate large-scale telemetry workloads that will be leveraged across the fleet.
  • Build and enhance APIs, tools, and subsystems for telemetry collection, routing, storage, and efficient data access.
  • Integrate advanced capabilities (e.g., machine learning–based anomaly detection and data validation) to enhance platform intelligence and insights.
  • Implement robust monitoring, alerting, and diagnostics and ensure production services run reliably, including participation in on-call rotations and incident response.
  • Collaborate with partner teams to deliver end-to-end observability solutions and contribute to design reviews and best practices that uphold high engineering standards.
  • Help evolve how the team builds with AI, championing agentic development practices and sharing repeatable patterns that improve engineering velocity and quality, as well as training and evolving AI to assist with non-coding scenarios such as site reliability engineering, support and administration.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 2+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C#, Java, .NET, or Python OR equivalent experience.

Skills

Required:Distributed systemsTelemetry / observability
Nice to have:AI / machine learning integration
Last updated Aug 6, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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