Senior Software Engineer - CTJ - TS/SCI

Required Qualifications: 

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, or related technical discipline 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
• 2 years experience with distributed systems and micro-service architecture

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 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 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 technical engineering experience with any object-oriented coding languages including, but not limited to C#, C++, C, Java, JavaScript, or Python 
• 6+ years of professional experience with designing, developing, and shipping reliable distributed systems and services   
• Experience shipping products on a regular release cycle 
• Experience debugging issues ranging from the operating system, application, and all the way to the cloud 
• Proven experience with building and supporting large-scale production services, including logging, monitoring, alerting, and measuring reliability and availability 
• Experience with Azure Compute, Azure Storage, and Cosmos DB services  
• Experience deploying, monitoring, and operating services in the cloud 
• Dependable communication skills and cross group collaboration 

Software Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $117,200 - $229,200 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 $153,600 - $250,200 per year.

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Microsoft will accept applications and processes offers for these roles on an ongoing basis.