Microsoft

Senior Software Engineer - CTJ - Poly

Microsoft • $119K — $234K *
Reston, VA 20191In-Person
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
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Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 4+ years of coding experience in languages like C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python.
  • Active U.S. Government Top Secret Clearance with access to Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI).
  • Ability to meet Microsoft's and government's strict security screening requirements.
  • Proven ability to influence and lead teams without formal authority.
  • Familiarity with databases, CI/CD concepts, and Git.

Responsibilities

  • Translate user requirements into designs that meet security and compliance standards.
  • Produce maintainable and performant code while conducting thorough reviews.
  • Decompose initiatives into manageable work items and drive execution.
  • Lead incident response and create automated playbooks for service improvements.
  • Enhance service reliability through automation and performance tuning.
  • Design and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) for secure cloud provisioning.
  • Share knowledge and mentor peers to uplift engineering practices.

Benefits

  • Flexible work-from-home options available.
  • Opportunity to work on mission-critical cloud services.
  • Engagement with innovative and strategic projects.
  • Professional development through mentoring and coaching.
  • Contribute to a culture that values respect and inclusion.
Full Job Description
Overview

Do you thrive on optimizing and maintaining foundational services that power the cloud? Microsoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer in the Azure Edge + Platform Silver Infrastructure Operations and Insights Team. The Operations and Insights team develops mission-critical platforms, tools, and big data solutions that empower Microsoft technicians and engineers to operate and protect Microsoft's cutting-edge cloud datacenters and high-security facilities.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you'll have the opportunity to build the most secure and trusted cloud that the US Government relies on for innovation. You'll design, develop, test, deploy, and support a variety of foundational cloud services, making a broad impact across Microsoft's products and customers. This role offers the chance to leverage your software and data engineering experience while delving into cloud infrastructure, big data, and cloud-scale automation. Plus, enjoy the flexibility of partially working from home while contributing to strategic projects.

Responsibilities

  • Translate user and stakeholder requirements into robust designs, clarifying acceptance criteria and aligning solutions with team architecture and security/compliance standards.
  • Own complex components end-to-end: produce maintainable, performant, and reusable code; write unit/integration tests; and uphold engineering excellence through thorough reviews.
  • Decompose large initiatives into well-scoped work items with estimates, identify cross-team dependencies and risks, and drive execution to hit schedule and quality bars.
  • Serve as senior Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) for services/features: lead incident response, perform root-cause analysis, create/automate playbooks, and drive measurable incident and toil reduction.
  • Improve service reliability and operational maturity through enhanced telemetry, observability integration, automated rollback/remediation workflows, and proactive performance tuning.
  • Design and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) assets-such as resource templates, declarative configurations, and automated deployment pipelines-to ensure consistent, repeatable, and secure provisioning across clouds.
  • Model continuous learning and knowledge sharing: evaluate emerging technologies, document patterns and runbooks, and mentor peers to uplift code quality and operational practices.
  • Embody our culture and values.


Qualifications

Required/Minimum Qualifications:

  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience.


Other Requirements:

Security Clearance Requirements: Candidates must be able to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings:
  • The successful candidate must have an active U.S. Government Top Secret Clearance with access to Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) based on a Single Scope Background Investigation (SSBI) with Polygraph. Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. Failure to maintain or obtain the appropriate U.S. Government clearance and/or customer screening requirements may result in employment action up to and including termination.
  • Clearance Verification: This position requires successful verification of the stated security clearance to meet federal government customer requirements. You will be asked to provide clearance verification information prior to an offer of employment.
  • Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
  • Citizenship & Citizenship Verification: This position requires verification of U.S. citizenship due to citizenship-based legal restrictions. Specifically, this position supports United States federal, state, and/or local United States government agency customer and is subject to certain citizenship-based restrictions where required or permitted by applicable law. To meet this legal requirement, citizenship will be verified via a valid passport, or other approved documents, or verified US government Clearance


Preferred/Additional Qualifications:
  • Demonstrated ability to lead through influence-aligning engineers, driving clarity, and unblocking execution without formal authority.
  • Demonstrated interest and potential in people leadership (mentoring, coaching, and developing others), with a desire to grow into a people manager role over time.
  • Experience developing front end web solutions leveraging Angular, React, or comparable frameworks.
  • Experience with development and administration of SQL Server databases.
  • Understanding and experience with CI/CD concepts and Git.
  • Experienced in solving operational issues in a scalable way.
  • Ability to thrive with the ambiguity associated with working in a fast-paced and changing environment.
  • Experience building and supporting large-scale production services, including logging, monitoring, alerting, and measuring reliability and availability.


Software Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $119,800 - $234,700 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $160,200 - $261,000 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:
https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

About Microsoft

Microsoft is an American multinational corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services. Microsoft’s devices and consumer (D&C) licensing segment licenses the Windows operating system and related software, Microsoft Office for consumers, and the Windows Phone operating system. The company’s computing and gaming hardware segment provides Xbox gaming and entertainment consoles and accessories, second-party and third-party video games, and Xbox Live subscriptions; surface devices and accessories; and Microsoft PC accessories. Its phone hardware segment offers Lumia smartphones and other non-Lumia phones. Its D&C segment provides Windows Store, Xbox Live transactions, and Windows phone store; search advertising; display advertising; Office 365 Home and Office 365 Personal; first-party video games; and other consumer products and services as well as operating retail stores. Microsoft’s commercial licensing segments license server products, including Windows Server, Microsoft SQL Server, Visual Studio, System Center, and related Client Access Licenses (CALs); Windows Embedded; Windows operating system; Microsoft Office for business, including Office, Exchange, SharePoint, Lync, and related CALs; Microsoft Dynamics business solutions; and Skype. Its commercial segment offers enterprise services, including premier support services and Microsoft consulting services; commercial cloud comprising Office 365 Commercial, other Microsoft Office online offerings, Dynamics CRM Online, and Microsoft Azure; and other commercial products and online services. The company markets and distributes its products through original equipment manufacturers, distributors, and resellers, as well as online.

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Size
181,000 employees
Market Cap
$1,762.4 billion
Industry
Enterprise Technology
Net Income
$51.3 billion
Founded
1975
5 Year Trend
+15.5%
Revenue
$153.2 billion
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