Software Engineer - Observability

Overview

Job Overview:

Microsoft is a company where passionate innovators come to collaborate, envision what can be and take their careers further. This is a world of more possibilities, more innovation, more openness, and the sky is the limit thinking in a cloud-enabled world.

Microsoft’s Azure Data engineering team is leading the transformation of analytics in the world of data with products like databases, data integration, big data analytics, messaging & real-time analytics, and business intelligence. The products our portfolio include Microsoft Fabric, Azure SQL DB, Azure Cosmos DB, Azure PostgreSQL, Azure Data Factory, Azure Synapse Analytics, Azure Service Bus, Azure Event Grid, and Power BI. Our mission is to build the data platform for the age of AI, powering a new class of data-first applications and driving a data culture.

Within Microsoft Fabric, the Azure Monitor team builds services that enable customers to monitor, detect, troubleshoot, and mitigate issues with their services through an increasingly agentic experience. Azure Monitor includes Log Analytics, Application Insights, Container Insights, Hosted Prometheus, Azure Managed Grafana, and more. Additionally, Azure Monitor is the platform upon which Microsoft Sentinel is built. We have a multi-billion-dollar business that is growing rapidly, and we run some of the world’s highest scale observability services both for Microsoft internally and for our external customers, processing over 1.5 Exabytes of logs daily and tracking over 100 billion active metrics.

We are looking for a Software Engineer to help shape the next phase of our Observability Platform. On this team, you’ll work on resilient large-scale systems for observability, telemetry ingestion, stream processing, query serving, and diagnostics across Microsoft’s cloud ecosystem.  You will collaborate with engineers, architects, and partner teams across Microsoft, applying modern AI-assisted engineering practices. We own the core telemetry ingestion pipelines across Azure, Office, Windows, Xbox, and a broad ecosystem of customer applications. This role sits close to the hard problems of scale, with strict requirements on throughput, reliability, correctness, and operability, and offers meaningful ownership over systems that run continuously at global scale. If you enjoy solving complex systems challenges involving scale, reliability, performance, service quality, and operational excellence, this team provides a unique opportunity to make a broad and lasting impact. 

We do not just value differences or different perspectives. We seek them out and invite them in so we can tap into the collective power of everyone in the company. As a result, our customers are better served.

Responsibilities

Job Responsibilities:

Design, develop, and operate large-scale, multi-tenant telemetry ingestion pipelines and services (real-time and batch) to handle massive data volumes.

Build and enhance APIs, tools, and subsystems for telemetry collection, routing, storage, and efficient data access.

Integrate advanced capabilities (e.g., machine learning–based anomaly detection and data validation) to enhance platform intelligence and insights.

Own core components of the ingestion and observability platform, driving continuous improvements in reliability, scalability, performance, and data quality.

Implement robust monitoring, alerting, and diagnostics and ensure production services run reliably, including participation in on-call rotations and incident response.

Collaborate with partner teams to deliver end-to-end observability solutions and contribute to design reviews and best practices that uphold high engineering standards.

Embody our culture and values

Qualifications

Required/Minimum Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related discipline, or equivalent experience

Software development with demonstrated experience shipping products or services

Solid understanding of data structures, algorithms, and system design fundamentals

Strong problem-solving and analytical skills, with a structured approach to software design

Ability to collaborate effectively in a cross-functional team environment

Strong communication skills

Job Requirements: Other & Additional

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/Additional Qualifications

Experience with cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud)

Experience building high-performance, scalable, and high-throughput systems

Experience with Service Fabric, AKS, or Azure DevOps

Experience debugging and resolving complex production issues

Experience working with AI/ML concepts or systems

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Equal Opportunity Employer (EOP)

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations, and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form (Accessibility | Microsoft Careers).

Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.

Software Engineering IC3 - The typical base pay range for this role across Ireland is € 63,400.00 - € 105,700.00 per year. Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.

Find additional benefits and pay information here:
https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/corporate-pay/ireland-corporate-pay.html

This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

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Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.