| Microsoft Careers

Microsoft

Quick summary

Work type
On-site
Location
—
Salary
$119,800–$234,700 / yr
Posted
56 days ago

Market check

Salary context

Above market

How this pay compares to similar roles

Similar $180k
This role $177k
$106k most similar roles pay here $248k

This role pays more than 66% of similar roles. Most pay $152,150–$207,350 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $177k versus about $180k for comparable roles.

Based on 239 similar postings.

Employer

About Microsoft

Microsoft Corporation is a global technology leader producing software, hardware, and cloud services including Windows, Office 365, Azure cloud platform, Xbox gaming, and Surface devices. Industry: Software & Cloud Computing

Microsoft currently has 1580 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $119,800–$234,700 across 1408 roles with salary data.

Most-posted roles

View all roles at Microsoft

At a glance

TL;DR · | Microsoft Careers

Apply Now Log in to save

The Microsoft Azure Host Networking and Hardware Acceleration team is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to design and develop advanced observability tools for diagnosing complex software-defined networking issues in the cloud. In this role, you will build out a globally distributed OpenTelemetry data infrastructure processing over 1 billion events per minute across all Azure regions, enabling near real-time attribution of packet loss. You will contribute to automation and monitoring frameworks, deploy new tools, mentor team members, and collaborate with customers and partner teams. The position requires expertise in networking fundamentals, low-level technologies, distributed systems platforms like Kubernetes or Service Fabric, and effective communication skills. Preferred qualifications include experience with systems programming, CI/CD pipelines, data pipelining, and shipping products or services. This role offers exposure to large-scale distributed systems and cutting-edge networking solutions, providing significant impact on Azure’s reliability and performance.

Skills

Azure Kubernetes OpenTelemetry Docker CI/CD Go Rust C C++ TypeScript Python PostgreSQL Mentorship Networking Linux Service Fabric Terraform Prometheus Grafana

What you'll do

  • Design and develop hyperscale observability tools for diagnosing complex software-defined networking issues.
  • Build a globally distributed OpenTelemetry data infrastructure to process over 1 billion events per minute.
  • Contribute code to existing automation and monitoring frameworks to enhance system reliability.
  • Deploy new network debugging tools across production datacenters to improve performance.
  • Mentor team members and provide training on advanced network diagnostics and tool usage.

What we're looking for

  • At least 4 years of technical engineering experience in coding languages like C, C++, C#, Rust, GO, TypeScript.
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field required.
  • Minimum 1 year of experience with systems observability.
  • Expertise in low-level networking technologies and packet traversal fundamentals.
  • Experience working on distributed system platforms such as Kubernetes or Service Fabric.
  • Strong communication skills for mentoring team members and interacting with customers.
  • Curiosity about system internals and ability to drive mission-critical escalations.

Related searches

More | Microsoft Careers jobs All jobs at Microsoft

More like this

Similar roles

| Microsoft Careers

Microsoft

US 63 days ago $142,800–$274,800
Python JavaScript C++ Java Kubernetes AWS Azure Docker CI/CD PostgreSQL MongoDB Redis Apache Spark TensorFlow PyTorch Prometheus Grafana Git Jenkins Responsible AI Scikit-learn
Hybrid
Save

| Microsoft Careers

Microsoft

Redmond, WA 12 days ago $142,800–$274,800
Python MATLAB RF measurement time-domain control AI ML automation tools topological qubits spin qubits superconducting qubits quantum characterization verification validation data acquisition statistical analysis cryogenic electrical measurements
Save

| Microsoft Careers

Microsoft

Redmond, WA 51 days ago $142,800–$274,800
Python TensorFlow PyTorch Kubernetes Docker CI/CD PostgreSQL MongoDB AWS Azure NLP Multimodal_Models Fine_Tuning Reinforcement_Learning A/B_Testing Predictive_Analytics Statistical_Methodologies ACL EMNLP SIGKDD AAAI WSDM COLING WWW ICASSP
Save

| Microsoft Careers

Microsoft

Redmond, WA 53 days ago $127,600–$229,200
UPS Generator AHU Servers SANs Networking Rack/Enclosures Structured Cabling CompTIA ITIL v3 Foundation MOF Certifications PMP CDCP CCNA Certifications ASICS/Inventory Control Leadership Development Certificates
Save

| Microsoft Careers

Microsoft

Redmond, WA 55 days ago
CUDA GPU ROCm Triton PTX CUTLASS C++ Parallel Computing Algorithm Optimization Performance Profiling Memory Hierarchies Deep Learning Model Compression Accelerator Design Machine Learning Systems Research
Save

| Microsoft Careers

Microsoft

Redmond, WA 54 days ago
inventory management systems configuration management databases asset management repositories RMA portals CI/CD Terraform AWS Kubernetes Docker Prometheus Grafana Python SQL PostgreSQL Git Jira Confluence
Save