Software Engineer - Azure Service Health at Microsoft

Dublin, Leinster, Ireland -

Full Time

Start Date

Immediate

Expiry Date

23 Feb, 26

Salary

0.0

Posted On

25 Nov, 25

Experience

5 year(s) or above

Remote Job

Yes

Telecommute

Yes

Sponsor Visa

Skills

Software Engineering, Azure, SRE Principles, Distributed Systems, Automation, Observability, Reliability, AI, Microservices, Containers, Kubernetes, Linux, C#, Java, Python, Incident Management

Industry

Software Development

Description

Billions of users across the world rely on our products, and to meet this demand we design and implement world-class distributed systems. As a Software Engineer in one of our Azure SRE teams, you will be responsible for improving the reliability of key Azure products. The Azure SRE key focus areas are: - Defining system reliability goals through Service Level Objectives (SLOs). Enhancing production posture with targeted improvements in observability and operability (telemetry, alerting, incident/change management, safe deployment practices). - Building reusable automation and processes that help multiple teams meet their reliability goals. Influencing product architecture and roadmaps to ensure customer-experienced reliability is a core design principle. - Contributing directly to product code to achieve reliability outcomes. Leveraging AI to proactively detect anomalies, predict incidents, and automate operational workflows - scaling reliability efforts across complex systems. - We are looking for engineers passionate about the above areas who are also interested in: Providing technical leadership across multiple Azure teams. Mentoring others on SRE principles, practices, and tools as well as AI usage to boost software development productivity. Designing and developing large-scale distributed software services and solutions. Delivering “best-in-class” engineering by ensuring services are modular, secure, reliable, testable, diagnosable, observable, and reusable. Building automation to prevent or remediate service issues before they impact users. - Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python - OR Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python. - OR equivalent experience working with large-scale distributed systems (e.g., cloud computing providers, SaaS services, etc., ideally with millions or billions of users) or similarly complex environments. - Awareness of, and ability to reason about, modern distributed software design patterns and cloud systems architecture, including microservices, containers, load-balancing, queuing, caching. - Experience in building, shipping and operating reliable solutions. - Familiarity with modern distributed software design patterns and cloud systems architecture, including microservices, containers, load balancing, queuing, caching. - Experience as a technical lead or engineering manager. - Experience working on large and unfamiliar codebases (millions of lines of code). - Experience with open-source projects, Kubernetes, Linux and containers is desired. - Proven track record in building, shipping, and operating reliable solutions. - Proficiency in programming languages like C#/Java/Python. ). - Experience in AI adoption with tools like GitHub Copilot, Azure OpenAI and custom copilots to streamline development and reduce toil. AzRel #AzCXP

Responsibilities

As a Software Engineer in the Azure SRE team, you will improve the reliability of key Azure products by defining system reliability goals and enhancing production posture. You will also build reusable automation and processes to help multiple teams meet their reliability goals.