Senior Software Engineer, Fauna
Microsoft’s Observability & Intelligent Cloud team is reimagining how large-scale cloud services stay reliable. We build intelligent systems that help prevent incidents, detect failures earlier, accelerate diagnosis and mitigation, and reduce operational effort across Microsoft services.
Our work spans the full reliability lifecycle—from telemetry and anomaly detection to AI-assisted diagnosis, safe automation, and intuitive operational experiences. You will help create secure, scalable platforms that protect customers and enable engineering teams to operate services with greater speed and confidence.
Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.
Design, build, test, deploy, and operate reliable backend services, APIs, data pipelines, and automation workflows.
Create intelligent capabilities that turn large volumes of operational data into timely, actionable insights for engineering teams.
Apply software engineering and AI techniques to improve anomaly detection, alert correlation, incident diagnosis, and safe mitigation.
Investigate production issues, identify root causes, and turn lessons from live-service events into durable product and engineering improvements.
Partner with service teams, product managers, and engineers to understand reliability challenges and translate them into scalable solutions.
Improve the security, observability, performance, quality, and maintainability of the services you own.
Contribute to technical designs, documentation, operational readiness, and shared engineering practices.
Required Qualifications:
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:
This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.
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.
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Microsoft builds Windows, Azure, Office and the Copilot family of AI assistants, and operates one of the largest AI training and inference fleets in the world. Microsoft Research and the AI platform teams work across foundation models, systems for large-scale training, and applied ML in every product line.
Founded in 1975 and headquartered in Redmond, Washington, the company is also OpenAI's principal compute partner and ships AI tooling for developers through GitHub, VS Code and Azure AI.
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