3 days ago
Jessup, MD, USA +2 moreMid Level
H1B sponsor
Base Salary
$102k - $219k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, test, and maintain cloud-scale services and platform components used in security-critical and highly regulated environments.
- Build features and systems supporting security, compliance, management, and reliability scenarios for internal platforms and customer-facing services.
- Collaborate with security, operations, program management, compliance, Software Engineering, and Data Science teams to deliver end-to-end solutions.
- Investigate and resolve live-site issues and contribute to operational excellence and service reliability.
- Participate in 24x7 on-call rotations, respond to incidents, and restore service safely and quickly.
- Apply secure-by-design principles, threat modeling, and defense-in-depth practices throughout development.
- Learn new technologies, seek feedback, and take on broader technical ownership over time.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field and 2+ years of technical engineering experience coding in C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python, or equivalent experience.
- Must have an active U.S. Government Top Secret Clearance with access to Sensitive Compartmented Information based on an SSBI with Polygraph.
- Must meet required Microsoft, customer, and government security screenings, including the Microsoft Cloud background check.
- U.S. citizenship verification is required because of citizenship-based legal restrictions for government customers.
- Preferred qualifications include a master’s degree with 3+ years of experience, or a bachelor’s degree with 5+ years of experience, or equivalent experience.
- Preferred experience includes supporting large-scale production services, logging, monitoring, alerting, reliability, availability, DevOps systems, source code management, CI/CD pipelines, code review tools, debugging across operating systems and cloud environments, cloud computing, virtual machines, networking, and cloud security disciplines.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills with multidisciplinary teams are preferred.
Benefits
- Base pay is listed at USD $102,100–$202,200 per year across the U.S., with a separate USD $133,800–$219,200 per year range for specified San Francisco Bay Area and New York City metropolitan locations.
- Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.
- The role includes a 24x7 on-call rotation and requires recurring Microsoft Cloud background checks every two years.
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About Microsoft
Microsoft develops operating systems, productivity software, cloud services, developer tools, and consumer devices for individuals, enterprises, and governments. Its main products include Windows, Microsoft 365, Azure, Visual Studio/GitHub, Xbox, and LinkedIn; revenue comes from software subscriptions and licenses, cloud consumption, hardware sales, and advertising. Founded in 1975 and headquartered in Redmond, Washington, Microsoft is a public company traded on Nasdaq.