Microsoft's Office Growth and Experiences (OGX) team is seeking a Software Engineer II to build and maintain mission-critical next-gen big-data telemetry pipelines. These pipelines will process petabytes of data daily, enable real-time alerting, and provide AI-driven analytic tools. The goal is to help multiple feature teams understand Office application performance, reliability, and usage patterns, ultimately driving strategic product investments for a better user experience.
Requirements
- 2+ years industry experience in designing and developing high availability, reliability and scalability back-end services.
- Solid proficiency in relational databases and writing SQL queries; KQL is a plus.
- Solid understanding of HTML, XML, JSON, JavaScript/TypeScript, and RESTful services fundamentals.
- Expertise with big-data frameworks, ETL pipelines, and data visualization tools (e.g., Power BI, Grafana).
- Exposure to Microsoft Azure technologies (or equivalent cloud platforms) including, but not limited to Web Apps, Azure Data Explorer, Azure Data Factory and Azure Storage.
- AI-first mindset with experience in ML/statistical methods for anomaly detection.
- Familiarity with telemetry platforms and experience leveraging telemetry to analyze health and usage patterns.
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, maintain and optimize scalable telemetry, monitoring and innovative data analytics solutions and big-data pipelines.
- Analyze telemetry signals to uncover patterns, find correlations, root-cause issues, assess scenarios health to drive product improvements.
- Integrate AI capabilities into our solutions portfolio and apply AI-first mindset for individual productivity.
- Collaborate with team members, cross-functional teams and geographies to define technical requirements, manage dependencies, participate in technical discussions, and develop cutting-edge high-impact solutions efficiently.
- Follow and promote engineering best practices across the software development lifecycle toward delivering solutions in time, quality and spec.
Other
- Solid verbal and written communication skills including proven experience communicating clearly and precise with both technical and non-technical stakeholders, and articulating complex technical concepts effectively.
- Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role.
- Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
- Global Team Collaboration: Experience working closely with geographically distributed teams and ability to manage communication in different time zones.
