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Posted date: Jul 29, 2026
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Category: Software Engineering
Location: Redmond, WA
Estimated salary: $190,400
Range: $119,800 - $261,000
Employment type: Full-Time
Work location type: 3 days / week in-office
Role: Individual Contributor
Description
OverviewWe are hiring a Senior Software Engineer to develop the core OS diagnostics and telemetry capabilities. You’ll work at the intersection of Windows internals and cloud-scale operations—building OS diagnostics components and instrumentation technologies that help engineers and customers detect, triage, and resolve issues across Windows clients and the Azure fleets.
This role is hands-on: designing event schemas and collection strategies, ensuring signal quality and cost control, debugging hard production issues, and partnering across teams to land durable, privacy-compliant solutions. Core areas include Event Tracing for Windows (ETW), Windows Performance Counters, Telemetry Clients, and pipelines that turn raw signals into actionable diagnostics.
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.
Responsibilities
Design, implement, and ship OS diagnostics components that support tracing, logging, and telemetry.Define end-to-end diagnostics workflows: from on-device signal generation → collection/forwarding → backend ingestion/analysis (Kusto/Geneva/Watson or equivalent) → actionable triage and mitigation.Investigate production issues using traces, counters, and logs; perform root-cause analysis; and implement durable fixes with appropriate guardrails and safe rollout strategies.Drive engineering best practices (code reviews, CI/CD, automated testing, documentation) and collaborate across partner teams to align on requirements and integration points.
Qualifications
Required/Minimum Qualifications:
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python.OR equivalent experience.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:
Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter. Preferred Qualifications:
Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python.OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python.OR equivalent experience.Experience debugging production issues using system-level signals (dumps, traces, metrics) and applying root-cause analysis to land durable fixes.Experience developing for Windows or Linux OS with attention to performance, reliability, and security.Knowledge of modern software engineering practices and tools (version control, CI/CD, automated testing, code reviews.
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Software Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $119,800 - $234,700 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $160,200 - $261,000 per year.
Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:
https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay
This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.
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