3 days ago
Base Salary
$143k - $304k/yr
Responsibilities
- Define and drive reliability strategy, SLO frameworks, and operational best practices across Substrate workloads.
- Participate in senior on-call rotations and lead incident response for regulated Substrate services.
- Provide hands-on technical leadership during complex or high-impact incidents.
- Lead post-incident reviews that produce durable, systemic engineering improvements.
- Architect and deliver large-scale automation, observability, and self-healing solutions.
- Drive architectural decisions and software engineering standards incorporating reliability, security, and compliance.
- Influence service design and engineering decisions across organizational boundaries.
- Mentor senior and principal engineers and shape the long-term direction of the SRE discipline.
- Represent Substrate SRE perspectives with senior leadership and cross-functional partners.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field and 5+ years of technical experience in software engineering, network engineering, or systems administration; equivalent experience is accepted.
- Alternatively, a master's degree with 3+ years or a doctorate with 2+ years of relevant technical experience qualifies.
- Preferred qualifications include a bachelor's degree with 12+ years, a master's degree with 8+ years, or a doctorate with 5+ years of relevant technical experience, or equivalent experience.
- 7+ years of technical experience working with large-scale cloud or distributed systems is preferred.
- Candidates must have an active U.S. Government Secret Security Clearance and successfully complete required Microsoft, customer, and government security screenings.
- U.S. citizenship must be verified because of citizenship-based legal restrictions.
Benefits
- Base pay and other compensation or benefits may be available according to Microsoft policy.
- The position is open for a minimum of five days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until filled.
Categories
Site Reliability
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.