Microsoft

Senior Software Engineer - CTJ - TS/SCI

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Jessup, MD, USA +4 moreSenior
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Base Salary

$120k - $261k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, test, and operate secure, reliable, scalable production-grade software and services.
  • Partner with customers and internal stakeholders to clarify requirements, define success metrics, and translate business needs into technical designs.
  • Drive engineering practices including code reviews, automated testing, CI/CD, observability, documentation, and security and compliance requirements.
  • Deliver customer outcomes end-to-end by prototyping, iterating with feedback, and meeting quality, performance, and maintainability goals.
  • Build reusable components, reference implementations, and shared engineering patterns.
  • Lead technical workstreams, align stakeholders, break down ambiguous problems, and drive execution through delivery.
  • Collaborate with engineering, data science, product, design, security, and domain experts in a multidisciplinary team.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field and 4+ years of technical engineering experience with coding, or equivalent experience.
  • Experience coding in one or more of C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python.
  • Ability to meet Microsoft, customer, and government security screening requirements, including maintaining an active TS/SCI clearance with polygraph.
  • U.S. citizenship is required where applicable due to citizenship-based legal restrictions for government customers.
  • Preferred: Master’s degree with 6+ years of experience, or bachelor’s degree with 8+ years of experience, or equivalent experience.
  • Preferred: Experience partnering directly with customers or internal stakeholders to deliver solutions end-to-end.
  • Preferred: Experience deploying and operating AI systems, AI or LLM-based solutions, or cloud AI platforms such as Azure ML or OpenAI.
  • Preferred: Knowledge of prompt engineering, retrieval-augmented approaches, model tuning, evaluation, data quality, and performance monitoring.

Benefits

  • Base pay is listed at USD $119,800–$234,700 per year across the U.S.; San Francisco Bay Area and New York City metropolitan area locations have a separate range of USD $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.

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10,000+ employees

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.

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