The Azure Monitor Site Reliability Team at Microsoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to enhance the reliability platform capabilities for Microsoft Monitoring solutions. This role focuses on defining and building systems for monitoring intelligence, telemetry, diagnostics, and operational automation. The team is responsible for ensuring high-scale observability services and driving systemic reliability improvements. The position offers an opportunity to mentor engineers and influence engineering standards across the organization.

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field and 4+ years of technical engineering experience with coding in languages such as C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python.
• Ability to meet Microsoft, customer, and/or government security screening requirements.

• Define architecture for agentic reliability systems spanning monitoring, telemetry, incident management, service topology, deployment signals, and operational knowledge.
• Lead platform capabilities for automated detection, triage, root-cause assistance, mitigation recommendations, safe execution, and post-incident learning.
• Establish engineering standards for safe agentic operations, including identity, access, compliance, rollback, auditability, change management, and human escalation.
• Influence service teams to adopt consistent monitoring, SLOs, alert quality, incident automation, live-site readiness, and operational excellence practices.
• Identify high-impact reliability gaps and convert them into platform investments, architectural improvements, and reusable automation.
• Lead complex live-site investigations and drive systemic reliability improvements from incident patterns and customer-impact data.
• Mentor engineers and shape long-term technical direction across monitoring, observability, incident response, and AI-assisted and agentic automation.

• Employees at Microsoft are often offered comprehensive, “world-class” benefits—including health and mental-wellness programs, competitive pay with bonuses and stock awards, and retirement/savings options. Time-off and flexibility are common, with generous vacation and holidays, parental and caregiver leave, and flexible work schedules, alongside learning support, employee resource groups, product discounts, and matching-gifts/volunteering programs. Specific benefits can vary by region.