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Base Salary
$120k - $261k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead the design and hands-on implementation of software and infrastructure improvements across Azure AI services in air-gapped and sovereign environments.
- Own engineering initiatives from problem definition and technical design through testing, rollout, and operational follow-through.
- Work across multiple codebases and architectures to integrate capabilities and resolve service dependency, networking, identity, and infrastructure challenges.
- Develop reusable automation, deployment tooling, release validation, and observability for multiple services.
- Participate in on-call rotations, investigate production issues, coordinate service restoration, and implement preventive fixes.
- Mentor engineers through design discussions, code reviews, documentation, and technical guidance.
- Evaluate and apply approved AI-assisted development tools while maintaining security and engineering quality.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related technical field and 4+ years of technical engineering experience with coding, or equivalent experience.
- Ability to meet Microsoft, customer, and government security screening requirements.
- Active U.S. Government Top Secret clearance with SCI access based on an SSBI with polygraph.
- Successful verification of the stated security clearance and U.S. citizenship.
- Ability to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire or transfer and every two years thereafter.
- Experience designing, developing, and operating production cloud services or distributed systems using C#, Python, or another general-purpose programming language is preferred.
- Ability to become productive in unfamiliar codebases and apply software engineering fundamentals across services, architectures, and technology stacks is preferred.
- Experience making architectural tradeoffs involving reliability, scalability, security, maintainability, and system dependencies is preferred.
- Experience deploying or troubleshooting containerized services using Docker and Kubernetes on Azure, AWS, Google Cloud, or comparable platforms is preferred.
- Experience building deployment automation, CI/CD pipelines, testing frameworks, or observability tooling for multiple services is preferred.
- Experience diagnosing complex issues across application, platform, and infrastructure boundaries is preferred.
- Experience leading technical delivery with cross-team dependencies and mentoring engineers through design and code reviews is preferred.
Benefits
- The typical U.S. base pay range is $119,800–$234,700 per year, with a separate San Francisco Bay Area and New York City metropolitan area range of $160,200–$261,000 per year.
- 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 five days.
- The role requires on-call participation and work supporting air-gapped and sovereign cloud environments.
- Microsoft provides an inclusive equal opportunity workplace and reasonable accommodation support.
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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.