Microsoft

Senior Software Engineer - CTJ - Poly

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2 days ago
Reston, VA, USA or Redmond, WA, USASenior
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Base Salary

$120k - $261k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Debug products proactively and reactively using code, logs, telemetry, and other diagnostic methods.
  • Maintain live-service operations through rotational on-call support, incident mitigation, escalation, and postmortem reviews.
  • Act as a Designated Responsible Individual, monitor services for degradation or outages, coordinate restoration, and reduce incident volume.
  • Integrate instrumentation and create telemetry outputs such as notifications and dashboards for performance, reliability, availability, usage, and safety metrics.
  • Collect, classify, and analyze system data to identify defects and guide product improvements.
  • Build and maintain reusable software developer tools and standardized, scalable solutions.
  • Share engineering tools, practices, and strategies with other engineers.

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 clearance verification, Microsoft Cloud background check, and U.S. citizenship verification are required.
  • Preferred: 4+ years of experience with PowerShell, C#, or C++.
  • Preferred: experience with large-scale distributed services and on-call responsibilities.
  • Preferred: ability to influence broadly toward common goals and priorities.
  • Preferred: ownership of end-to-end project lifecycles with project management and communication skills.

Benefits

  • Typical U.S. base pay range is USD $119,800–$234,700 per year; specified San Francisco Bay Area and New York City locations have a range of USD $160,200–$261,000 per year.
  • Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.
  • Applications remain open for at least five days and are accepted on an ongoing basis until the role is filled.

Tech Stack

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DevOpsSite Reliability
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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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