Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Microsoft

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$119,800–$234,700 / yr
Posted
116 days ago
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Confirmed live yesterday
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Nov 14, 2026

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Similar $183k
This role $177k
$106k most similar roles pay here $248k

This role pays less than 58% of similar roles. Most pay $152,150–$214,125 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $177k versus about $183k for comparable roles.

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Microsoft Corporation is a global technology leader producing software, hardware, and cloud services including Windows, Office 365, Azure cloud platform, Xbox gaming, and Surface devices. Industry: Software & Cloud Computing

Microsoft currently has 598 open roles on FindRole.

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TL;DR · Senior Site Reliability Engineer

As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer on the Microsoft Defender team, you will provide critical operational support for cloud security products within highly sensitive government environments. You will serve as a Designated Responsible Individual in an on-call rotation to manage incident response and ensure high availability for production services. Your daily responsibilities include automating deployments, building scalable systems for monitoring and alerting, and conducting post-incident postmortems to improve system reliability. To succeed, you must be proficient in programming languages such as C#, Go, Java, or Python while utilizing CI/CD pipelines and reliability tooling. You will solve complex problems related to maintaining performance SLAs and ensuring security compliance for distributed systems. This role requires a high level of technical expertise to manage the infrastructure protecting against evolving cyber threats within secure government cloud environments.

What does a Site Reliability Engineer earn?

Median $186200 from 131 postings across 36 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Act as a Designated Responsible Individual in an on-call rotation to lead incident response and resolution for critical services.
  • Execute and improve manual operations while designing automation to scale and streamline deployments across environments.
  • Develop automated systems for monitoring, alerting, debugging, and deployment to reduce manual effort.
  • Ensure all systems meet strict security, privacy, and accessibility standards when onboarding new technologies.
  • Conduct postmortems and implement solutions to prevent the recurrence of technical issues.
  • Partner with engineering and product teams to align reliability goals with customer needs.
  • Improve system availability, observability, and performance through continuous technical growth and innovation.

What we're looking for

  • A Master's degree plus 2 years of experience in software engineering, network engineering, or systems administration is required.
  • A Bachelor's degree plus 4 years of experience in software engineering, network engineering, or systems administration is required.
  • Candidates must possess an active TS clearance and be eligible to upgrade to a TS/SCI with polygraph.
  • Candidates must maintain a TS/SCI (with polygraph) clearance for the duration of employment.
  • Experience working with large-scale cloud or distributed systems is preferred.
  • Proficiency in at least one programming language such as C#, Go, Java, or Python is preferred.
  • Experience with CI/CD pipelines, testing, deployment, and reliability tooling is preferred.
  • Security Clearance Requirements: Candidates.

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