Sr. Software Engineer CTJ- Poly
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Redmond, WA - USA
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Job Summary
Microsoft has an exciting opportunity for a Senior Software Engineer in the Microsoft Specialized Clouds Power Platform team focused on building deploying and operating Power Automate services within AirGapped and Sovereign Cloud environments.
Power Automate is a foundational service within Microsoft Power Platform enabling customers to automate workflows across applications services and data highly regulated and mission-critical environments these capabilities must be delivered with strict requirements for security compliance reliability and operational excellence.
This role sits at the intersection of software engineering and site reliability engineering (SRE). You will work on distributed systems that enable Power Platform services to function in isolated airgapped environments partnering with Public Cloud teams to bring features to parity while ensuring those features meet the constraints of sovereign deployments.
You will be expected to operate with a high degree of ownershipdriving design implementation live-site operations and continuous improvementwhile contributing to a culture of automation observability and operational maturity.
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.
Responsibilities
- Acts as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) for service components owning availability reliability and operational health
- Participates in on-call rotations responding to incidents by assessing impact troubleshooting issues mitigating customer impact and driving resolution
- Leads or contributes to root cause analysis (RCA) and postmortems ensuring learnings translate into systemic improvements
Service Reliability & Operations
- Uses existing tools and develops new capabilities to troubleshoot issues affecting availability performance security and efficiency
- Leverages telemetry and monitoring to identify trends detect anomalies and proactively improve service health
- Drives improvements in observability alerting and diagnostics
Engineering & System Design
- Leads and contributes to architecture and design discussions for components of Power Automate services
- Identifies dependencies across teams and incorporates them into design specifications and execution plans
- Ensures systems meet performance scalability security and compliance requirements especially within airgapped constraints
Deployment & Automation
- Develops and improves CI/CD pipelines and deployment systems enabling safe repeatable and automated releases
- Drives zero-touch or low-touch deployment automation using internal tooling and safe deployment practices
- Improves engineering efficiency by reducing manual operations and operational toil
Product & Feature Support
- Collaborates with Public Cloud teams to onboard features resolve dependencies and align environments
- Supports integration and validation across Power Platform services (Power Automate Dataverse Power Apps)
- Participates in sprint planning backlog grooming and execution to deliver engineering commitments
Continuous Improvement & Engineering Discipline
- Develops a deep understanding of service architecture code and operational behavior at scale
- Identifies opportunities to improve reliability performance and operational maturity and drives those improvements
- Mentors engineers shares knowledge and contributes to team standards and best practices
- Leverages modern tools including AI-assisted development to improve productivity and code quality
Qualifications
Required/Minimum 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.
- 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:
- Masters 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 Bachelors 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.
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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