Job Description
Job Summary: Lead Development of Large Scale Distributed Systems
Microsoft is seeking a development lead to design and build large scale distributed systems with high availability requirements.
About the Role
The Observability platform team has the charter to deliver the core telemetry platform for the company. The team works on Data Collection, Control, Correlation/Distributed Tracing, Curation, Metrics, Health, and System Intelligence platforms for Observability area.
Microsoft's telemetry systems ingest over 900 petabytes of data every day, operating at massive scale. Our goal is to enable the safe management of this data and help teams gain insights into the operations and performance of their systems.
We're looking for a development lead who is passionate about large scale distributed systems. This area has huge impact for all of Azure; any reliability issues in this system have direct impact to revenue for the Azure Business.
Responsibilities
- Lead, coach, and build a diverse, inclusive, high-performing team where all team members are inspired to technical excellence.
- Foster and develop talented engineers capable of developing and running scalable, reliable, maintainable services.
- Leads the design and building distributed services that are secure, scalable, reliable, and performant.
- Creates, implements, optimizes, debugs, refactors, and reuses code to establish and improve performance and resilience, maintainability, effectiveness, and return on investment (ROI).
- Defines customer success metrics and engineers services to meet and exceed the goals.
Requirements
- Engineering lead in development and design with demonstrated experience shipping products, services.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, related discipline, or equivalent experience.
- Experience with C#, Java, or C++.
- Experienced people manager.
Preferred Qualifications
- Proven experience designing and building large scale distributed systems with high availability requirements.
- Proven experience in diverse technologies and technical challenges, both in services development and systems engineering.
- Work with open source big data standards like Parquet or Avro.
- Excellent analytical skills with systematic and structured approach to software design.
- Great communication and collaboration skills; comfortable presenting to senior leadership.
- Demonstrated ability to drive resolution to complex problems and reaching consensus across teams.
- Cloud-native mindset, including aspects of performance, reliability, scalability, resilience.
Benefits
- Industry leading healthcare.
- Educational resources.
- Discounts on products and services.
- Savings and investments.
- Maternity and paternity leave.
- Generous time away.
- Giving programs.
- Opportunities to network and connect.