Senior Software Engineer - Metrics Infrastructure at Microsoft
Redmond, WA
$119,800–$234,700from the description
Jul 28, 2026
Redmond, WA
Jul 29, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A Senior Software Engineer role on Microsoft's Azure Data / Microsoft Fabric team, focused on building and operating the foundational Time Series Database layer for Azure Monitor. The work centers on low-latency ingestion pipelines, highly scalable microservices, and operational tooling that collectively process more than 100 petabytes of telemetry daily across Azure, Office, Windows, and Xbox. The role involves design and code leadership, cross-team collaboration, and mentoring alongside hands-on engineering at global scale.
Senior level · 4+ years · Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA · Bachelor's required · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 10,700 people in the Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 8,100–14,000
Applicant volume Heavy — This req sits in a large pool with little in its requirements to thin it, and auto-apply tools fire at everything in the occupation. Applying early and leading with the rare skills below is what gets read.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $170,959 (middle half $135,720–$216,519). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 29, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (6)
The required degree is a Bachelor's in Computer Science or related field with 4+ years of experience, but the JD explicitly accepts 'equivalent experience' as an alternative — however, the degree is listed as the primary gate without a clear 'or equivalent experience' substitution at the degree level itself, so Bachelors is recorded as the minimum. Hiring managers should note the 'OR equivalent experience' clause may allow non-degree candidates.
The JD names C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, and Python as acceptable coding languages under the required qualifications — these are interchangeable options for the same gate, so C# is listed as the primary with the others as alternatives.
The preferred qualifications raise the bar to a Master's degree with 6+ years, or a Bachelor's with 8+ years; the 4-year floor from the required section is used for the overall years minimum.
The base pay range of $160,200–$261,000/year applies specifically to the San Francisco Bay Area and New York City metro; the general US range of $119,800–$234,700/year is reported here.
Skills such as 'distributed systems', 'big data', 'Azure', 'microservices', and 'data ingestion pipelines' appear only in narrative/context sections or preferred qualifications framing, not as hard gates in the required qualifications block — they are marked as preferred accordingly.
No specific named technologies beyond programming languages are hard-gated in the required qualifications section; the team's stack (Azure Monitor, Time Series DB, telemetry pipelines) is described as context rather than a candidate requirement.
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