Base Salary
$166k - $296k/yr
Responsibilities
- Architect security services meeting sovereign cloud requirements for data residency, regulatory compliance, and isolation.
- Drive integration across Microsoft Security, Azure, and SCS teams to shape platform architecture and sovereign capabilities.
- Design, develop, and operate scalable, resilient distributed cloud services with high availability and operational excellence.
- Lead technical strategy in ambiguous problem spaces, evaluate emerging technologies, and guide experimentation.
- Embed monitoring, live-site readiness, incident response, performance optimization, and reliability practices into development.
- Champion engineering standards, clean code, modern development practices, and developer productivity improvements.
- Mentor senior engineers and influence technical strategy and culture across the organization.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related technical field and 8+ years of technical engineering experience with coding, or equivalent experience.
- Experience designing, building, and operating scalable, highly available cloud services or distributed systems on Azure, including production ownership and CI/CD pipeline integration.
- Experience applying distributed-systems concepts such as concurrency, conflict resolution, and consensus algorithms to resilient backend architectures.
- Experience designing, developing, or maintaining secure software systems, including authentication, data protection, access control, and secure coding practices.
- Experience with sovereign cloud, data residency, or regulatory compliance requirements in cloud platform engineering.
- Experience with reliability, durability, operational efficiency, live-site operations, incident response, and performance optimization.
- Experience programming in backend languages such as C#, Java, Go, or Python.
- Experience designing and building microservices architectures with production ownership.
- Preferred: master’s degree in computer science or a related technical field, or a bachelor’s degree with 15+ years of equivalent experience.
- U.S. citizenship must be verified via a valid passport because of government-customer and export-control restrictions.
- Must pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire or transfer and every two years thereafter.
Benefits
- The typical U.S. base pay range is USD $165,600–$296,400 per year; specific ranges apply in the San Francisco Bay Area and New York City metropolitan area.
- Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.
- The position is open for at least 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until filled.
About Microsoft
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