Senior Software Engineer - Windows Data

Join the Windows Data Team - Build Client-Side Telemetry at Global Scale

Windows runs on over a billion devices worldwide. Every new release reaches hundreds of millions of users indays. The Windows Data team powers this ecosystem by capturing and processing telemetry from Windows devices and delivering insights that shape product decisions, improve performance, and enhance customer experiences.

As aSenior Software Engineer,you'llfocus on client-side development to improve how telemetry is collected, processed, and securely uploaded to the cloud. This role spans client-to-cloud architecture, giving you the chance to design and implement solutions thatoperateatmassivescale.You'llwork closely with data scientists, engineers, and program managers to advance observability and data quality across Windows.

We're looking for engineers who:

• Demonstrate strong capability in building reliable, maintainable clientside code and services
• Thrive on solving complex technical challenges thatimpactbillions of users.
• Appreciate solving complex technical challenges that influence a global customer base.
• Embrace agile development and rapid iteration.
• Value iterative development and adaptive, teamfocused practices.

At Microsoft, you'll lead architectural design, collaborate across disciplines, and deliver high-quality solutions that empower customers and developers alike. If you're passionate about telemetry, performance, and building software that matters, we'd love to have you on our team.

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.

• Collaborates withappropriate stakeholderstodetermineuser requirements for a scenario.
• Drives identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for a product, application, service, or platform.
• Creates, implements,optimizes, debugs, refactors, and reuses code toestablishand improve performance and maintainability, effectiveness, and return on investment (ROI).
• Leverages subject-matterexpertiseof product features and partners withappropriate stakeholders(e.g., project managers) to drive a workgroup's project plans, release plans, and work items.
• Acts as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) and guides other engineers by developing and following the playbook, working on call to monitor system/product/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions.
• Communicating status updates clearly and initiates actions to restore system/product/service for simple and complex problems when appropriate.
• Proactively seeks new knowledge and adapts tonew trends, technical solutions, and patterns that will improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while also driving consistency in monitoring and operations atscale.
• Use data and telemetryto test thefunctionality of thecodeend to end.