Senior Software Engineer
- Location
- United States
- Job type
- Full-time
- Level
- Senior
- Experience
- 4+ years
- Education
- Bachelor's degree
- Listed
- 28 days ago
Skills & highlights for this role
- distributed systems
- telemetry data pipelines
- observability
- incident response
Also useful
- AI infrastructure
- root cause analysis
About the role
Develop and operate high-throughput, low-latency data processing pipelines that transform infrastructure telemetry into actionable intelligence at cloud scale. Drive the evolution of observability by continuously discovering new failure modes, operational patterns, and leading indicators, translating them into meaningful monitoring, analytics, and automation capabilities.
Own end-to-end delivery of services and platform components, from architecture and design through implementation, deployment, and operational excellence. Partner with engineering, operations, and platform teams to identify the signals, metrics, and insights that matter most for reliability, performance, capacity, and customer impact.
Act as a technical leader and Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) for critical services, driving incident response, root cause analysis, reliability improvements, and operational readiness. Champion engineering excellence through AI assisted development and debugging, code reviews, system design discussions, mentoring, and raising the bar on reliability, scalability, and maintainability.
Stay at the forefront of emerging trends in distributed systems, observability, AI infrastructure, and cloud operations, applying new ideas to solve real-world operational challenges.
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 Master'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 Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience.
2+ years building end to end observability solutions for complex cloud infrastructure
From Microsoft's careers page, first listed on Rolev.ai on October 11, 2026. Rolev.ai is not the employer.
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