Senior Software Engineer CTJ TSSCI

Do you want to help operate and evolve the control plane at the heart of Microsoft Azure The One Plane team delivers the services that form Azures management layer through which customers deploy configure and govern their resources. Central to this portfolio is Azure Resource Manager (ARM) the control-plane service underlying resource management across Azure.

Our team brings these critical services to customers operating mission-critical workloads in highly secure and regulated environments. We are responsible for deploying operating and improving ARM and its adjacent services across specialized clouds while maintaining alignment with the broader Azure platform.

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer who is energized by technically challenging problems and comfortable working across service and organizational this role you will investigate complex distributed-system behavior lead substantial engineering efforts improve how services are delivered and operated and help other engineers strengthen their design debugging and coding skills. You will partner closely with engineers across Azure to turn the needs of highly regulated clouds into durable improvements for our customers and the broader platform.

Microsofts 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

• 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.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelors 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:

• Candidates must have an active TS/SCI and be willing and eligible to upgrade to TS/SCI (with polygraph). This role will require candidates to maintain the TS/SCI (with polygraph) clearance. Ability to meet Microsoft customer and/or government security screening requirements are required pre-offer and post-hire for this role. Failure to maintain or obtain the appropriate 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 Qualifications:

• 6 years of software engineering experience designing building debugging or operating production services.
• Demonstrated ability to diagnose complex software and distributed-system failures using source code logs telemetry debuggers and other diagnostic tools.
• Experience reading reviewing and modifying unfamiliar codebases and tracing behavior across services and system layers.
• Strong understanding of distributed-systems concepts including asynchronous processing concurrency fault tolerance consistency retries idempotency and failure recovery.
• Experience taking substantial or ambiguous engineering projects from initial investigation and design through implementation deployment and production operation.
• Experience developing and debugging software using C# Java or another object-oriented programming language.
• 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 $119800 - $234700 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 $160200 - $261000 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:
position will be open for a minimum of 5 days with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age ancestry citizenship color family or medical care leave gender identity or expression genetic information immigration status marital status medical condition national origin physical or mental disability political affiliation protected veteran or military status race ethnicity religion sex (including pregnancy) sexual orientation or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process read more about requesting accommodations.

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