9 hours ago
Reston, VA, USA or Redmond, WA, USAMid Level
H1B sponsor
Base Salary
$85k - $184k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, test, and maintain cloud-scale services and platform components for security-critical and highly regulated environments.
- Build systems supporting security, compliance, management, and reliability scenarios for internal platforms and customer-facing services.
- Write clean, maintainable, and well-tested code and participate in design discussions, architecture reviews, and code reviews.
- Collaborate with security, operations, program management, compliance, and partner engineering teams.
- Investigate and resolve live-site issues, using telemetry, data, and customer feedback to improve performance, reliability, and security.
- Participate in 24x7 on-call rotations and respond to incidents to restore service safely and quickly.
- Apply secure-by-design practices, including threat modeling and defense in depth, throughout the development lifecycle.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related technical discipline, or equivalent experience, with proven coding experience.
- Preferred: bachelor’s degree plus 1+ year of technical engineering experience, a related master’s degree, or equivalent experience.
- Coding experience with languages such as C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Rust, or Python.
- Ability to meet Microsoft, customer, and government security screening requirements.
- Active U.S. Government Top Secret Security Clearance.
- 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.
- Preferred experience with CI/CD systems, infrastructure as code, Azure, distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, observability, monitoring, deployment automation, and regulated or government environments.
- Preferred knowledge of software engineering fundamentals, secure development practices, service operations, and service reliability engineering practices.
Benefits
- Typical U.S. base pay range is USD $85,400–$168,100 per year; San Francisco Bay Area and New York City metropolitan areas have a separate range of USD $111,100–$183,700 per year.
- Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.
- The position is open for at least five days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until filled.
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.