Senior Software Engineer - CTJ - TS

Microsoft•Redmond, WA

About The Position

In this fast-paced environment, innovation, collaboration, and engineering excellence are core to our culture. The Personnel team plays a critical role in supporting both internal partner teams and our DoD (Department of Defense) and DIB (Defense Industrial Base) customers, ensuring that our solutions meet the highest standards of security, compliance, and reliability. We are seeking Senior Software Engineer with strong ownership mentalities and diverse backgrounds, who are passionate about raising the bar and driving impact across the organization. Your work will directly support mission-critical initiatives for government agencies and internal stakeholders, helping to deliver secure, resilient, and compliant cloud services at scale. You will collaborate across teams to solve complex and ambiguous problems, continually learning from your colleagues and contributing to a culture where everyone can thrive. US citizenship is required for this role due to the sensitive nature of our government customer engagements. Our team’s mission is to grow the business by building software that fulfills our enterprise promises of high availability, resiliency, data management, security, and compliance across the entire suite of Azure services, with a special focus on government clouds. Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. We come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals—grounded in our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create an inclusive culture where everyone can do their best work.

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. These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings:
Candidates must have an active TS Top-Secret Security Clearance e. This role will require candidates to maintain the TS 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 is not eligible for visa sponsorship. Candidates must have authorization to work in the United States that does not now or in the future require employer sponsorship.

Nice To Haves

Master's 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 Bachelor's 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.
6+ years of software engineering experience building and releasing web services.
Show experience in driving large strategic and complex or ambiguous projects that span organizations.
Passion for delivering customer impact and value.
Experience building and deploying infrastructure using Microsoft Azure technology or AWS.
Experience supporting government or regulated industries (security, compliance, and audit readiness).

Responsibilities

Architect, deploy, and manage secure Microsoft services in cloud and hybrid environments with a focus on reliability, security, and compliance.
Build scalable backend systems (distributed systems, microservices) with seamless data integration and well-defined contracts and SLAs.
Design for high availability, scalability, robustness, and observability; drive SLOs, error budgets, and telemetry-first engineering.
Build and deploy services to Azure using modern CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, and automated testing practices.
Collaborate with security, compliance, and site reliability teams to meet regulatory and customer requirements for government and regulated industries.
Prototype, experiment, and evaluate alternative architectures and technologies; make data-driven tradeoffs.
Uphold and evolve engineering best practices (code quality, design reviews, testing, operational excellence).
Mentor and coach engineers; provide technical leadership across team boundaries.
Participate in service ownership (e.g., on-call rotations) to ensure high service quality and rapid incident response.
Embody our culture and values.