Software Engineer - Front End

🏢 About Microsoft

Microsoft is a global technology leader dedicated to empowering every person and organization on the planet to achieve more. Across enterprise cloud infrastructure, personal computing, artificial intelligence, and developer platforms, Microsoft builds transformative software at unprecedented scale. The Azure Data engineering division leads the next generation of cloud analytics, high-throughput messaging, and intelligent data systems that power mission-critical workloads worldwide.

🎯 The Role

As a Frontend Software Engineer on the Observability Experiences team within Azure Data, you will build user interfaces that empower developers and enterprise operators to monitor, analyze, and optimize their cloud workloads across Microsoft Azure and Microsoft Fabric. Operating in a hybrid model (1 day per week in the Vancouver office), you will partner with designers, product managers, and backend systems engineers to transform dense telemetry signals into clean, responsive, and intuitive web experiences.

🛠️ Tech Stack

• React, Modern JavaScript & TypeScript
• HTML5, Modern CSS & Fluent UI Design System
• RESTful APIs & Real-Time Telemetry Streaming
• Azure Cloud Services & Microsoft Fabric Integration
• Automated Testing (Jest, Playwright) & CI/CD Pipelines
• Web Performance Profiling & WCAG Accessibility Standards

💼 What You'll Do

• Design, code, test, deploy, and maintain customer-facing frontend experiences with React and TypeScript.
• Collaborate across engineering, UX design, product management, and data teams to deliver features end-to-end.
• Connect frontend user interfaces to distributed backend microservices, telemetry pipelines, and identity layers.
• Uphold Microsoft engineering standards for web accessibility (WCAG), runtime performance, security, and privacy.
• Inspect telemetry dashboards, experimentation metrics, and user feedback to drive iterative UX enhancements.
• Contribute to incident investigations, root-cause analyses, and reliable live-site engineering practices.

✅ What You'll Need

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 2+ years of professional engineering experience with web development languages, including TypeScript or JavaScript.
• Proven track record building and shipping customer-facing web applications using React.
• Solid understanding of web fundamentals, responsive CSS layouts, and accessibility principles.
• Experience integrating web interfaces with backend APIs, authentication mechanisms, and cloud services.
• Strong collaborative communication skills and a continuous learning approach to software craft.

🌟 Nice to Have

• Prior experience building monitoring tools, telemetry dashboards, or observability platforms.
• Familiarity with cloud services on Microsoft Azure, AWS, or GCP.