Hiring: Senior Software Engineer - CTJ - TS/SCI Company: Microsoft Location: Reston, VA Job Posted Time: 2026-09-16 13:42:05 Target Skills & Keywords : Azure, C, C#, C++, Java, JavaScript, Python, Security Clearance About the job Experience: •4+ 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 designing, building, debugging, or operating production services. Required Skills: •Take end-to-end ownership of substantial engineering efforts across Azure control-plane services, from initial investigation and technical design through implementation, deployment, and production operation. Partner with Azure engineering teams to deliver service updates that meet the requirements of specialized clouds. •Investigate and resolve complex issues spanning distributed services, deployment systems, infrastructure, and environmental dependencies. Use source code, telemetry, logs, and service architecture to identify root causes and drive durable corrective actions. •Identify assumptions and dependencies that limit where Azure services can operate. Design and influence improvements that make services more portable, environment-agnostic, reliable, and maintainable across commercial and specialized clouds. •Act as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) and participate in on-call rotations for mission-critical services. Diagnose service degradation and outages, communicate status to stakeholders, restore service within established objectives, and ensure incidents result in meaningful engineering improvements. •Improve service delivery through automation, deployment safety, observability, performance optimization, and the elimination of repetitive operational work. Use production experience and service data to prioritize improvements with measurable impact. •Provide technical leadership through code reviews, design discussions, debugging guidance, and hands-on collaboration. Mentor other engineers and help strengthen their coding, debugging, design, and engineering decision-making skills. •Proactively evaluate new technologies, tools, and engineering practices that can improve developer productivity, service quality, and operational effectiveness. Apply sound technical judgment to determine where they provide meaningful value while meeting security, compliance, reliability, and operational requirements. •Embody our culture and values. 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. •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. •Demonstrated ability to diagnose complex software and distributed-system failures using source code, logs, telemetry, debuggers, and other diagnostic tools. •In-depth knowledge of distributed-systems concepts, including asynchronous processing, concurrency, fault tolerance, consistency, retries, idempotency, and failure recovery. •Demonstrated ability to influence technical decisions across teams and help other engineers improve their code quality, debugging practices, system designs, and engineering judgment. •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. Compensation: •$119,800 - $234,700 / year Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!