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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
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The Software Engineer II - Fundamentals joins the Windows + Devices Fundamentals team to improve the reliability, performance, battery life, and sustainability of Windows devices. In this role, you will build data-driven solutions to reveal how devices behave at enterprise scale by transforming telemetry and diagnostic signals into actionable insights. You will develop metrics, analytics, and system improvements while building reliable data pipelines, queries, and dashboards to detect regressions and prioritize investments. The work involves investigating metric movements using statistical methods, debugging, and performance analysis tools. Required skills include proficiency in languages such as C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python. Preferred experience includes Kusto, Azure data platforms, and expertise in operating systems, reliability engineering, power efficiency, and large-scale analytics to solve complex problems regarding device health and system behavior within the Windows ecosystem.
What does a Software Engineer earn?
Median $197500 from 2196 postings across 133 companies.
Define metrics and success criteria for Windows reliability, performance, battery life, and sustainability.
Analyze fleet telemetry and diagnostic signals to identify trends, anomalies, and regressions.
Build reliable data pipelines, queries, dashboards, and automated analyses for device-health insights.
Investigate metric movements using statistical methods, experimentation, and performance-analysis tools.
Design, implement, and test operating-system or analytics improvements to address identified opportunities.
Evaluate data quality, establish baselines, and quantify tradeoffs against measurable goals.
What we're looking for
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field and 2+ years of engineering experience with coding in languages like C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python.
Equivalent practical experience to the degree and years requirement is acceptable.
Experience in software engineering, systems analysis, debugging, performance engineering, data engineering, or related work (preferred).
Experience analyzing telemetry or operational data to diagnose system behavior and improve reliability, performance, efficiency, or security (preferred).
Experience developing, testing, and delivering reliable production software, data pipelines, metrics, or analytics (preferred).
Knowledge of operating systems, system-level development, performance engineering, data engineering, or large-scale analytics (preferred).
Knowledge of Windows internals, reliability engineering, performance analysis, or power efficiency (preferred).
Experience with Kusto, Azure data platforms, fleet telemetry, statistical analysis, experimentation, anomaly detection, or machine learning (preferred).
C
C++
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
Windows
Generative AI
Telemetry
Logging
Tracing
Device Orchestration
Firmware
System Internals
Test Automation
Data Engineering
Microservices
Azure
AWS
GCP
C#
Python
Java
C++
C
JavaScript
Distributed Systems
Cloud-Native
API Design
Deployment Automation
Telemetry
Service Orchestration
Distributed Systems
Azure
AWS
GCP
Python
Java
C#
C++
Swift
Kotlin
React
Objective C
CI/CD
Identity and Access Management
Automated Testing
Monitoring
Data Protection