Cloud System and Software Analytics

Overview

In Microsoft, we build and operate several world leading complex and large-scale productivity clouds (Azure, Microsoft 365). The quality of cloud platforms, including reliability, performance, efficiency, security, sustainability, etc., has become immensely important. The distributed nature, massive scale, and high complexity of cloud platforms present huge challenges to build and operate such systems effectively and efficiently. Each independent service in cloud computing, such as computing virtualization, cloud storage service, distributed database, etc., is a complex distributed system. These services (including various services under the IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS models) together constitute the overall solution of cloud computing, and become a complex system (System of System). With understanding and analysis of such system architecture, we can optimize the cloud computing system and infrastructure, and to further improve the quality of cloud computing services.

Cloud systems and software analytics research has covered various topics of cloud system/infrastructure, software analytics and DevOps. Besides publishing 60+ papers in top conferences, the research team has delivered significant contributions in enhancing reliability, performance, capacity efficiency, productivity and sustainability for Microsoft cloud production. These general technologies can be expanded to other online services. Hence, we believe that ramping up our investments in cloud systems and software analytics research is crucial towards our long-term success.

Career Opportunity

The goal is to synergize the related areas and advance state-of-the-art research in Systems and Software. Based on huge scale data, the team is building innovative technologies on Systems and software, intelligent Software Engineering, resource optimization, ML for systems, Cloud Intelligence and AIOps. You will be working together with world-class experts on exciting and impactful research projects, as well as publishing papers in top-tier conferences in Software, System, or AI areas.

We are looking for talents at different levels, Senior Researchers/Researchers/Senior RSDE/RSDE (Research SDE), in systems and software. Candidates have knowledge and experience in Systems, Software, or data mining as preferred.

Please contact us at ci-hire@microsoft.com. Also welcome any enquires.