Are you passionate about client and service telemetry and observability for global services? Office 365 is the locomotive that is driving the growing Microsoft valuation, and critical to the future of Microsoft. OneDrive and SharePoint (ODSP) are the set of intelligent, high value services and compliant environment that is enabling the next generation of transformative end-user experiences for Office and the entire company. The ODSP team has an opportunity for you get in on designing and building a core part of the observability ecosystem that is critical to how we deliver world-class reliability for our customers, safely and in compliance with global regulations and policies.
This Principal Software Engineer position is for an Individual Contributor (IC) on the ODSP Observability Engineering team to develop new service features for the management and usage of telemetry generated by our services and clients.
The service is globally distributed, highly available and resilient, and has very high demands for a robust observability ecosystem that is compliant with geo-regional policies and regulations.
Your responsibility will be to analyze, design, and implement improvements to how the service generates and processes telemetry, how those telemetry are stored, managed and accessed and how such access policies adhere to various geo-regional policies and regulations while still being easy to use by our engineering teams. Key goals are to improve performance and security, reduce Cost of Goods Sold (COGS), and drive those changes across multiple products in both ODSP and Microsoft.
The ideal candidate should have strong analytical, design, and development skills with depth in telemetry ecosystems, databases, storage, high performance data structures, and algorithms and a passion for observability.
She/He should have a strong development background, excellent communication skills, and a strong foundation in Computer Science. Lastly, because the work is done indirectly on behalf of a large team, influencing without authority is key to success.
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