Senior Software Engineer - CTJ - TS/SCI

Microsoft • Elkridge, MD

92d • $100,600 - $199,000

About The Position

Microsoft has an exciting opportunity for a Senior Software Engineer in the Cloud+AI Silver Team. This team will be responsible for deploying and operating services within an air gapped environment, including the infrastructure for collaboration. In this role, you will have the opportunity to work with engineers and PMs who enable a broad set of Azure services to be consumed by internal and external customers in highly secured and regulated industries. The systems and software you build and support will be required to meet the security policy and assurance requirements of both public and private sector customers. Microsoft's mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

Requirements

• 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.
• Candidates must have an active TS/SCI and be willing to upgrade to TS/SCI (with polygraph).
• Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements.

Nice To Haves

• 3+ years of experience with PowerShell, C#, or C++.
• Experience working on large-scale distributed services with on-call responsibilities.
• Ownership for end-to-end project lifecycle with solid project management skills.

Responsibilities

• Applies debugging tools and examines logs, telemetry, and other methods to verify assumptions through writing and developing code proactively before issues occur and reactively as issues occur for products.
• Conducts retrospective debugging of solutions to identify root causes of problems.
• Maintains operations of live service as issues arise on a rotational, on-call basis.
• Implements solutions and mitigations to more complex issues impacting performance or functionality of Live Site service and escalates as necessary.
• Reviews and writes issues postmortem and shares insights with the team.
• Acts as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) and guides other engineers by developing and following the playbook.
• Drives efforts to reduce incident volume, looking globally at incidences and providing broad resolutions.
• Drives efforts to integrate instrumentation for gathering telemetry data on system behavior such as performance, reliability, availability, usage, and safety mechanisms.
• Creates outputs of telemetry such as notifications or dashboards.
• Drives the refinement of products through data analytics and makes informed decisions in engineering products through data integration.
• Builds, enhances, reuses, contributes to, and identifies new software developer tools to support other programs and applications to create, debug, and maintain code for products.
• Defines and develops standardized, repeatable, scalable solutions to guarantee quality.

Benefits

• Industry leading healthcare
• Educational resources
• Discounts on products and services
• Savings and investments
• Maternity and paternity leave
• Generous time away
• Giving programs
• Opportunities to network and connect

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Industry: Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree