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Location
Redmond, WA
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$142,800–$274,800 / yr
Posted
6 days ago
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Dec 5, 2026
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As a Principal Site Reliability Engineer at Microsoft Substrate, you will join a high-impact team responsible for ensuring the reliability and security of critical cloud services like Exchange Online and M365 Copilot. Your day-to-day responsibilities include defining reliability strategies, driving operational best practices, and leading complex incident responses in highly regulated environments such as GCC Moderate, GCC High, and DoD. You will architect large-scale automation and observability solutions, mentor senior engineers, and influence architectural decisions across organizational boundaries to embed security and compliance into Substrate services. The role requires extensive experience with cloud or distributed systems and a deep understanding of regulatory requirements in sovereign and compliance-sensitive contexts.

Skills

Kubernetes AWS Azure CI/CD Python Go Docker Prometheus Grafana PostgreSQL SQL Git Terraform Ansible JSON YAML REST OAuth SLO Observability Self-healing

What you'll do

  • Define and drive reliability strategy and operational best practices for Substrate workloads in regulated environments.
  • Lead incident response and provide technical direction during complex high-impact incidents.
  • Architect large-scale automation, observability, and self-healing solutions to enhance service reliability.
  • Influence architectural decisions and set software engineering standards for reliability and compliance.
  • Mentor senior engineers and shape the long-term technical direction of SRE discipline.

What we're looking for

  • Must meet Microsoft Government cloud environment security screening requirements.
  • Requires access to GCC Moderate, GCC High, and DoD environments.
  • Must pass Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire and every two years.
  • 7+ years of experience with large-scale cloud or distributed systems.
  • Experience operating services in regulated, sovereign, or compliance-sensitive environments.
  • Define and drive reliability strategy and operational best practices across workloads.

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