2 days ago
Reston, VA, USAMid Level
H1B sponsor
Base Salary
$102k - $219k/yr
Responsibilities
- Build new capabilities, maintain service health through investigation and break-fix work, and contribute changes to partner-owned codebases.
- Improve Azure services for portability, maintainability, and reliability across commercial and specialized cloud environments.
- Serve as a Designated Responsible Individual and participate in on-call rotations for mission-critical services.
- Diagnose incidents using source code, telemetry, logs, metrics, and service architecture, then drive root-cause remediation.
- Develop deployment and production-operations automation to reduce toil and improve service delivery.
- Collect and analyze service health, performance, and reliability data to guide engineering and operational decisions.
- Apply security, privacy, safety, accessibility, and compliance requirements to designs and engineering processes.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related technical field and 2+ years of technical engineering experience coding, or equivalent experience.
- Active U.S. Government Top Secret clearance with access to Sensitive Compartmented Information and Polygraph.
- U.S. citizenship due to customer contractual and controlled technology requirements.
- Ability to meet and maintain applicable Microsoft, customer, and government security screening requirements.
- Preferred: 4+ years of software engineering experience designing, building, debugging, or operating production services.
- Preferred: experience with C#, Java, or another object-oriented programming language and with diagnosing distributed-system failures.
- Preferred: experience with unfamiliar codebases, distributed-systems concepts, production reliability, observability, performance, on-call or incident response, scripting, automation, and deployment processes.
- Preferred: ability to collaborate across engineering organizations and make progress on ambiguous technical problems.
Benefits
- Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.
- The position is open for a minimum of 5 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.