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The European Development Centre (EDC), Microsoft Engineering in Ireland has multiple positions open to be hired across different teams.  As a Software Engineer at Microsoft Ireland, you will develop solutions used by billions of people around the world.

With teams working on Azure, Microsoft 365, Dynamics 365, Microsoft Entra, Teams, OneDrive & SharePoint, Office, and Havok, there is no limit to what you can achieve here.

You can learn more about our Dublin Engineering Development Centre here:   

https://www.microsoft.com/en-ie/engineering   

https://www.microsoft.com/en-ie/engineering/Life   

Responsibilities

On the Geneva Metrics team, we build high scale services that ingest, aggregate and query near-real-time metric data. Our team brings powerful data insights to Microsoft engineers as well as Azure customers around the world. As an Embedded Software Engineer, you will shape the future of the first ingestion stage of our pipeline by designing and developing high impact features for our customers. As a member of our team, you will participate in all stages of our engineering lifecycle - from initial research and discovery, quick iteration on promising concepts, solution prototyping and development, all the way through successful service roll out and live site support. Developers in the team have the opportunity to wear multiple hats and demonstrate breadth, depth, and leadership.

This position is for someone who is:

• Enjoys the challenge of pushing big data while driving real-time latency

• Loves new technological challenges and excels at solving them

• Excels at identifying bottlenecks and engineering solutions for performance sensitive data pipelines.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of development experience

• 1+ years of experience with C++ Solid design and coding skills with a bias for architecture at scale

• Experience creating, developing, delivering, deploying, maintaining online services

Desired Qualifications:

• Cross-platform experience developing software for Windows, Linux, OSX, iOS, Android

• Experience with non-Intel architectures (ARM64, MIPS), cross-compilation, diagnosing and debugging.

• Experience with Rust, golang, Java, Ruby, Python, Swift

• Broad outlook on current metrics & telemetry stacks, protocols and open source projects in that area: Prometheus, TICK stack (Telegaf, InfluxDB, Chronograf, Kapacitor), ELK stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana)

• Experience working within Networking or Automotive industries

• Knowledge of Microsoft Azure, AWS or similar cloud computing platforms

• Successful candidates should have a strong grasp of Computer Science fundamentals, sharp technical design skills, and a healthy appetite for tackling hard, ambiguous problems.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form (https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/accommodationrequest) .

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, 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 and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations (https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/accessibility.html) .