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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 Azure Data, the databases team builds and maintains Microsoft's operational Database systems. We store and manage data in a structured way to enable multitude of applications across various industries. We are on a journey to enable developer friendly, mission-critical, AI enabled operational Databases across relational, non-relational and OSS offerings.?
??We are looking for a Principal Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) who likes taking a data driven and systems-based approach to solve Service Reliability problems. You will be responsible for building and optimizing solutions that can analyze massive amounts of telemetry and other Service Health indicators in near real time and perform automated root cause analysis and necessary mitigations to restore SLO's.
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
??Collaborating closely with engineering teams on building and enhancing tooling and automation solutions for faster resolution of issues impacting SLO's and averting incidents altogether when possible.
Collaborating with the customers to understand their pain points around Supportability and SLO attainment and formulate strategies for addressing recurring issues in a sustainable way.
Communicate on a deeply technical level and be the single point of contact for interfacing with large enterprise customers for handling service escalations and driving the issues to resolution.
Ability to design and implement any changes to service telemetry for the automation to consume if it is not already available.
Enhancing customer facing experience by proactive alerting based on utilization, trends, resource health, etc.
Analyze data and provide operational insights into customer experience to Design and Product teams, so that we can design features with Supportability in mind.?
Embody our culture (https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/culture) and values (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/about/corporate-values)
Qualifications
Required /Minimum Qualifications
8+ years technical experience in software engineering, network engineering, or systems administration
OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND 5+ years technical experience in software engineering, network engineering, or systems administration
OR Master's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND 3+ years technical experience in software engineering, network engineering, or systems administration
OR Doctorate Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND 2+ years technical experience in software engineering, network engineering, or systems administration
Experience with distributed systems and databases.
Other Requirements
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
Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 10+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
OR equivalent experience.
Hands-on experience managing live-site operations, leading incident response for distributed systems like Database systems, driving root cause analysis through detailed post-mortems to improve system reliability and performance tuning.
Site Reliability Engineering IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $139,900 - $274,800 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 $188,000 - $304,200 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 June 16th, 2025.
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