3 days ago
Reston, VA, USA or Redmond, WA, USAMid Level
H1B sponsor
Base Salary
$102k - $219k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, test, and maintain cloud-scale services and platform components for security-critical and highly regulated environments.
- Build features supporting security, compliance, management, and reliability scenarios for internal platforms and customer-facing services.
- Collaborate with security, operations, program management, compliance, and engineering partner teams.
- Investigate and resolve live-site issues, support service health, respond to incidents, and participate in 24x7 on-call rotations.
- Apply secure-by-design principles, threat modeling, and defense-in-depth practices throughout development.
- Write clean, maintainable, and well-tested code while progressively taking on broader technical ownership.
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.
- Active U.S. Government Top Secret Clearance with access to Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI), based on a Single Scope Background Investigation (SSBI) with Polygraph.
- Ability to meet Microsoft, customer, and government security screening requirements before and after hire.
- U.S. citizenship verification is required because of citizenship-based legal restrictions.
- Preferred qualifications include a master’s degree and 3+ years of experience, or a bachelor’s degree and 5+ years of experience, or equivalent experience.
- Experience building and supporting large-scale production services with logging, monitoring, alerting, reliability, and availability practices.
- Hands-on experience with source code management, CI/CD pipelines, and code review tools.
- Strong debugging skills across operating systems, applications, and cloud environments, plus familiarity with cloud computing, virtual machines, and networking.
- Experience with cloud security disciplines such as event collection, monitoring, detection engineering, or vulnerability management.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills with multidisciplinary teams.
Benefits
- The typical U.S. base pay range is USD $102,100–$202,200 per year; a separate range applies 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 five days, with applications accepted until filled.
- The role requires participation in 24x7 on-call rotations.
- Microsoft Cloud background checks are required upon hire or transfer and every two years thereafter.
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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.