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We are on a journey to enable developer friendly, mission-critical, AI enabled operational Databases across relational, non-relational and OSS offerings.\nThe Metrics Infrastructure team is hiring a Senior Software Engineer to help us build the foundational layer of the Time Series Database for Azure Monitor.\nWe design and operate systems that deliver near-real-time telemetry and health insights for Microsoft services and countless customer workloads hosted on Azure. Our mission is to continuously raise the bar on reliability and scalability, ensuring rapid, dependable visibility into service behavior at global scale.\nWe embrace a fast-paced, startup-like culture focused on shipping early and often, with a strong emphasis on attention to detail, introspection, and accountability. Collaboration is at the heart of our team. 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As a result, our customers are better served.\nResponsibilities\nAs a senior member of our team, you will lead design and code reviews across feature areas and participate in all stages of our engineering lifecycle (initial research and discovery, quick iteration on promising concepts, solution prototyping and development, deployment and live site support).\nDevelopers in the team are expected to wear multiple hats and demonstrate breadth, depth, and leadership.\nYou will work with multiple partner teams and deploy across all Azure regions.\nThis position is for someone who is:\nPassionate about distributed systems and planetary scale services.\nEnjoys the challenge of pushing big data on near real-time latencies.\nLooks to drive innovation within a product and become an industry leader.\nLoves new technological challenges and excels at solving them.\nExcels at identifying bottlenecks and engineering solutions for performance sensitive data pipelines.\nWrites well-crafted, well-tested, readable and maintainable code.\nParticipates in code reviews to ensure code quality and distribute knowledge.\nShares knowledge by giving tech talks, and evangelizing appropriate tech and engineering best practices.\nQualifications\nRequired Qualifications\nBachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience.\nPreferred Qualifications\nMaster's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python\nOR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience\n.\n#azdat#azuredata#hyperscale #cloudservices\nSoftware Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across Ireland is € 77,400.00 - € 130,000.00 per year. 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