Microsoft

Senior Software Engineer - CTJ - TS/SCI

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14 hours ago
Reston, VA, USASenior
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Base Salary

$120k - $261k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Own substantial engineering efforts across Azure control-plane services from investigation and technical design through implementation, deployment, and production operation.
  • Investigate and resolve complex issues across distributed services, deployment systems, infrastructure, and environmental dependencies using source code, telemetry, logs, and service architecture.
  • Improve service portability, reliability, maintainability, delivery safety, observability, performance, and operational efficiency across commercial and specialized clouds.
  • Serve as a Designated Responsible Individual and participate in on-call rotations, responding to degradation and outages and driving post-incident improvements.
  • Provide technical leadership through code reviews, design discussions, debugging guidance, hands-on collaboration, and mentoring.
  • Evaluate and apply technologies, tools, and engineering practices while meeting security, compliance, reliability, and operational requirements.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field and 4+ years of technical engineering experience with coding, or equivalent experience.
  • Active TS/SCI clearance with willingness and eligibility to upgrade to TS/SCI with polygraph, and ability to maintain the required clearance.
  • Successful clearance verification, Microsoft Cloud background check, and U.S. citizenship verification are required.
  • Preferred qualifications include 6+ years of software engineering experience designing, building, debugging, or operating production services.
  • Experience diagnosing distributed-system failures, working in unfamiliar codebases, understanding distributed-systems concepts, and delivering ambiguous projects end to end.
  • Experience developing and debugging with C#, Java, or another object-oriented programming language.
  • Ability to influence technical decisions across teams and improve other engineers’ code quality, debugging, system design, and engineering judgment.

Benefits

  • Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation; additional benefits and pay information is available through Microsoft’s corporate pay information page.
  • Applications are accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled, with the posting open for a minimum of 5 days.
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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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