1 day ago
Jessup, MD, USA +2 moreMid Level
H1B sponsor
Base Salary
$102k - $219k/yr
Responsibilities
- Serve as a Designated Responsible Individual and monitor critical services for degradation.
- Respond to production incidents within SLA timeframes and coordinate with stakeholders during outages.
- Build new services and contribute to partner-team codebases across Microsoft.
- Develop automation for production deployment and operations and reduce operational toil.
- Run code in test environments and validate deployment functionality.
- Ensure processes meet security, privacy, safety, accessibility, and compliance standards.
- Collect, classify, and analyze system health, performance, and reliability metrics.
- Design and build scalable, maintainable, observable, and resilient software systems.
- Improve availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance in airgapped environments.
- Collaborate with engineering, program management, security, and data teams across Microsoft.
- Share knowledge and mentor teammates while contributing to team capability growth.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related technical field and 2+ years of technical engineering experience with coding in C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python, or equivalent experience.
- Ability to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Government Top Secret clearance with SCI access based on an SSBI with polygraph.
- Ability to pass Microsoft, customer, and government security screenings, including the Microsoft Cloud background check.
- U.S. citizenship verification is required due to citizenship-based legal restrictions.
- Preferred: master’s degree plus 2+ years of technical engineering experience, or bachelor’s degree plus 4+ years of technical engineering experience, or equivalent experience.
- Preferred: full-stack development experience with modern frameworks and cloud-native architectures.
- Preferred: strong understanding of Azure DevOps and Git/GitHub workflows.
- Preferred: 2+ years of hands-on Windows or Linux system administration experience.
- Preferred: experience supporting large-scale production services with a focus on reliability, observability, and performance.
- Preferred: expertise in logging, monitoring, alerting, service-health measurement, debugging, scripting, and maintainable tested code.
- Preferred: experience with 24x7 on-call responsibilities, incident response, partner codebases, and cross-disciplinary collaboration.
- Preferred: strong communication skills, self-directed learning, and the ability to work in ambiguous, fast-paced environments.
Benefits
- Base pay is listed at USD $102,100–$202,200 per year across the U.S., with a separate range for specified San Francisco Bay Area and New York City metropolitan locations.
- Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.
- Applications are accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled, with the posting open for at least 5 days.
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.