Software Engineering

Overview

We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer with ownership mentalities and diverse backgrounds, who are passionate about raising the bar and driving impact across the organization. Your work will directly support mission-critical initiatives for government agencies and internal stakeholders, helping to deliver secure, resilient, and compliant cloud services at scale.

Our team’s mission is to grow the business by building software that fulfills our enterprise promises of high availability, resiliency, data management, security, and compliance across the entire suite of Azure services, with a special focus on government clouds.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will collaborate across teams to solve complex and ambiguous problems, continually learning from your colleagues and contributing to a culture where everyone can thrive. US citizenship is required for this role due to the sensitive nature of our government customer engagements.

Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. We come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals—grounded in our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create an inclusive culture where everyone can do their best work.

Responsibilities

• Architect, deploy, and manage secure Microsoft services in cloud and hybrid environments with a focus on reliability, security, and compliance.
• Build scalable backend systems (distributed systems, microservices) with seamless data integration and well-defined contracts and SLAs.
• Design for high availability, scalability, robustness, and observability; drive SLOs, error budgets, and telemetry-first engineering.
• Build and deploy services to Azure using modern CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, and automated testing practices.
• Collaborate with security, compliance, and site reliability teams to meet regulatory and customer requirements for government and regulated industries.
• Prototype, experiment, and evaluate alternative architectures and technologies; make data-driven tradeoffs.
• Uphold and evolve engineering best practices (code quality, design reviews, testing, operational excellence).
• Mentor and coach engineers; provide technical leadership across team boundaries.
  Participate in service ownership (e.g., on-call rotations) to ensure  service quality and rapid incident response.
• Embody our culture and values.

Qualifications

Required/minimum qualifications:

Other Requirements:

• 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 Qualifications:

• Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience.
• 6+ years of software engineering experience building and releasing web services.
• Show experience in driving large strategic and complex or ambiguous projects that span organizations.
• Passion for delivering customer impact and value.
• Experience building and deploying infrastructure using Microsoft Azure technology or AWS.
• Experience supporting government or regulated industries (security, compliance, and audit readiness).
• Active U.S. Government Top Secret Clearance with access to Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) based on a Single Scope Background Investigation (SSBI) with Polygraph is preferred but not required.

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 $158,400 - $258,000 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.

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