Microsoft Azure Edge + Platform (E+P) is a globally distributed team of engineers, architects, program managers, product managers, business program managers, business administrators, user experience researchers and designers who are responsible for the platform for Microsoft and for delivering Microsoft’s edge vision. We create the most reliable and trustworthy OS and platform services to empower Microsoft and our customers to achieve more. We unlock the next wave of opportunity at the edge through an at-scale ecosystem driving widespread adoption of our Microsoft cloud services.

Join our dynamic team that is at the core of the strategic Azure Adaptive Cloud vision. The adaptive cloud approach unifies siloed teams, distributed sites, and sprawling systems into a single operations, security, application, and data model, enabling organizations to leverage cloud-native and AI technologies to work simultaneously across hybrid, multi-cloud, edge, and IoT. The Adaptive Cloud Data & Intelligence (DI) team leverages cutting-edge technology to drive business insights and strategic decision-making across the full portfolio of products and services that enable this vision.

The Adaptive Cloud DI team is seeking a Software Engineer II with a growth mindset to help lead our engineering efforts to build/enhance existing frameworks and tools in the adaptive cloud space. You will also be working with large amounts of telemetry, applying aggregation techniques, ML/AI to bring exciting and actionable insights that would help improve our products. Accomplishing that will provide many opportunities that span data pipeline creation, data analysis, product-platform-infrastructure coding, and even ML model building as we drive to meet key results which you will help define. Ultimately, you will help lead data engineering efforts across multiple teams to deliver exciting, secure, and reliable new Microsoft technologies to the world.

Microsoft is on a mission to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. Our culture is centered on embracing a growth mindset, a theme of inspiring excellence, and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day. In doing so, we create life-changing innovations that impact billions of lives around the world. You can help us achieve our mission.

Responsibilities

• Write high quality, maintainable and high-performance code following proven development principles.

• Design, develop and operate large scale, efficient and reliable DevOps pipelines.

• Design, build/enhance existing frameworks and tooling that enable us to be a truly lights out engineering team.

• Design, build, and maintain data pipelines to extract and transform data that support OS security features, enabling us to deliver experiences that are both secure and great to use.

• Define and establish the KPIs for the platform - i.e. measures performance, reliability & telemetry related metrics.

• Investigate, analyze & troubleshoot live site issues to mitigation/resolution.

• Partner with peer PM & Dev teams to understand the needs/asks, translate them into meaningful deliverables.

• Leverage data to identify defects and user experience issues, crafting dashboards, scorecards, and KPIs to inform the team of scenario reach, quality, and functionality.

• Follow all procedures to maintain data compliance with applicable laws and policies, including identifying, classifying, tagging, and documenting privacy and compliance aspects of data.

• Stay up to date with tools needed today and help us adopt those needed tomorrow by always learning, experimenting, and sharing technologies, processes, and approaches across our team.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to support data-driven decision-making.

• Help product teams identify customers’ unmet or unknown needs and market opportunities via quantitative analysis.

• Define and collect performance metrics (ex: engagement, usage, acquisition, and revenue), monitor and report on progress in product and business reviews.

• Translate complex datasets into actionable business insights.

• Provide guidance and support to product managers in their analytics tasks.

• Other

• Embody our Culture (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/about/corporate-values) and Values (https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/culture)

Qualifications

Required 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, C++, C#, or Python

• OR equivalent experience.

• 2+ years of software development with experience in debugging, coding and problem-solving skills.

• 2+ year with data analysis, data engineering, or data science.

Other :

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:

• Experience with business and performance analytics of technology product/service.

• Proficiency with Excell, Power BI, Tableau, Google Analytics or similar BI products.

• Understanding of database technologies (SQL or No-SQL) and data modeling.

• Experience with data science is a plus.

• Proficiency in SQL, Python, Spark or similar data analysis tools and systems.

• Solid understanding of statistical analysis and predictive machine learning techniques.

• Excellent communication skills with the ability to present findings to both technical and non-technical audiences.

• Passion about applying data analysis and AI/ML methodologies to product innovation.

Software Engineering IC3 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $98,300 - $193,200 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $127,200 - $208,800 per year. Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until July 24, 2024.

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