Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Microsoft Cloud Operations & Innovation (CO+I) is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to join their Cloud Infrastructure Health team. This role is at the forefront of Microsoft's cloud computing transformation, working with state-of-the-art distributed systems that handle petabyte-scale telemetry using Machine Learning for Cloud Availability and Safety goals.

The position involves maintaining and improving critical datacenter infrastructure that powers Microsoft's cloud services, which enable approximately 30% of Microsoft's revenue through Commercial Cloud operations. You'll be working on systems that analyze massive amounts of telemetry data in real-time and offline to deliver time-sensitive insights directly impacting Cloud Operations.

As an SRE, you'll be responsible for ensuring service reliability and scalability, participating in design reviews, and developing automation tools. The role combines software development expertise with operations knowledge to build and maintain highly available systems. You'll collaborate with feature teams to increase deployment velocity while ensuring safety, analyze telemetry data for capacity planning, and participate in on-call rotations to resolve live site incidents.

The ideal candidate will bring 6+ years of technical experience in software engineering or systems administration, with particular expertise in system uptime, performance monitoring, and capacity planning. You'll be working in a hybrid environment (up to 50% work from home) with some travel requirements (0-25%).

Microsoft offers comprehensive benefits including industry-leading healthcare, educational resources, savings and investment options, parental leave, and generous time off. The position offers competitive compensation with a base pay range of $117,200 - $229,200 per year (varies by location).

Join a team that's essential to Microsoft's cloud infrastructure, where you'll have the opportunity to make significant impacts on global-scale systems while working with cutting-edge technology and talented engineers.