Senior Software Engineer Job at Microsoft Corporation (Reston)

Senior Software Engineer

Microsoft Corporation

Location:
United States , Reston

Category:
IT - Software Development

Contract Type:
Not provided

Salary:

119800.00 - 234700.00 USD / Year

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Job Description:

Microsoft has an exciting opportunity for a Senior Software Engineer on the Sovereign Cloud Security 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.

Job Responsibility:

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
Maintains operations of live service as issues arise on a rotational, on-call basis
Acts as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) and guides other engineers by developing and following the playbook, working on call to monitor system/product/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions
Drives efforts to integrate instrumentation for gathering telemetry data on system behavior such as performance, reliability, availability, usage, and safety mechanisms
Drives efforts to collect, classify, and analyze data on a range of metrics
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

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
Security Clearance Requirements: Candidates must be able to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role
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
This position requires verification of U.S. citizenship due to citizenship-based legal restrictions

Nice to have:

5+ years of experience with PowerShell, C#, or C++
Experience working on large-scale distributed services with on-call responsibilities
Ability to build and influence broadly towards common goals and priorities
Ownership for end-to-end project lifecycle with solid project management and communication skills

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
February 17, 2026

Employment Type:

Fulltime

Work Type:

Hybrid work

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