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Software Engineering II - CTJ - Poly

Microsoft2,398 open roles

Pay
$102,100 – $202,200 a year
Where
Reston, VA, United States
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Overview

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 Azure’s 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 Software Engineer II who enjoys solving technically challenging problems and learning how large-scale cloud services operate. In this role, you will investigate distributed-system behavior, design and implement service improvements, and help make our services more reliable, secure, and efficient. You will work closely with experienced engineers and partner teams across Azure to navigate ambiguous problems, develop practical solutions, and address the unique needs of highly regulated clouds.

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.

Responsibilities

• Drive Technical Excellence Across Domains: Contribute across three core areas: building new capabilities, maintaining service health through investigation and break-fix work, and delivering changes in codebases owned by partner teams across Microsoft. Learn unfamiliar systems quickly, understand partner requirements and contribution processes, and apply sound engineering practices across each area.

• Improve Services Across Environments: Identify assumptions and dependencies that limit where Azure services can operate. Work with experienced engineers and service owners to make services more portable, maintainable, and reliable across commercial and specialized cloud environments. • Own Service Reliability: Act as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) and participate in on-call rotations for mission-critical services. Use source code, telemetry, logs, metrics, and service architecture to diagnose incidents, identify root causes, restore service within established objectives, and drive lasting corrective actions. • Automate and Improve Service Delivery: Develop automation for deployment and production operations. Identify recurring patterns and sources of operational toil, then improve tooling and processes to make service delivery safer, faster, and more reliable. • Use Data to Drive Improvements: Collect and analyze service health, performance, and reliability data. Distinguish meaningful signals from noise and use findings to inform engineering priorities, product improvements, and operational decisions. • Engineer for Security and Compliance: Follow and improve engineering processes that meet security, privacy, safety, accessibility, and compliance requirements. Evaluate designs and technologies with the needs of highly secure and regulated environments in mind. • Grow Your Skills Continuously: Stay current with developments in cloud software, distributed systems, reliability engineering, and operational practices. Build expertise in unfamiliar services and codebases, and apply new knowledge to improve service availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 2+ years of technical engineering experience 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 for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to, the following specialized security screenings:

  • The successful candidate must have an active U.S. Government Top Secret (TS) clearance with access to Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) and Polygraph.
  • This position requires U.S. citizenship due to customer contractual and controlled technology requirements.
  • Ability to meet and maintain applicable Microsoft, customer, and/or government security screening requirements is required.

Preferred Qualifications

  • 4+ years of software engineering experience designing, building, debugging, or operating production services.
  • Experience developing and debugging software using C#, Java, or another object-oriented programming language.
  • Demonstrated ability to diagnose software or 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 or system layers.
  • Understanding of distributed-systems concepts such as asynchronous processing, concurrency, fault tolerance, retries, idempotency, and failure recovery.
  • Experience building or supporting production services with an emphasis on reliability, observability, and performance, including participation in on-call or incident response.
  • Experience using scripting, automation, and CI/CD systems to improve deployment or operational processes.
  • Experience contributing to codebases owned by partner teams and collaborating across different engineering organizations.
  • Ability to make progress on ambiguous technical problems by breaking them into manageable components, validating assumptions, and collaborating with stakeholders.

Software Engineering IC3 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $102,100 - $202,200 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 $133,800 - $219,200 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.

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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