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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
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As a Senior Software Engineer - CTJ - Poly, you will join a team focused on designing, building, and operating distributed database services for secure, air-gapped cloud environments. You will manage production reliability, performance, and incident response while developing compliant systems that meet strict isolation and supply-chain requirements in sovereign and disconnected clouds. Your daily work involves automating the full service lifecycle to reduce manual toil across provisioning, patching, and failover processes. To succeed, you must be proficient in coding with languages such as C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python. You will also utilize artificial intelligence tools throughout the development lifecycle to create maintainable code and implement security hardening. This role addresses critical infrastructure challenges within highly regulated environments requiring specialized security clearances and robust distributed system troubleshooting.
What does a Software Engineer earn?
Median $197500 from 2196 postings across 133 companies.
Design, build, and operate distributed database services for secure, air-gapped cloud environments.
Manage production reliability including availability, performance, backup, restore, upgrades, and incident response.
Develop secure systems that meet strict isolation, regulatory, and supply-chain requirements in disconnected clouds.
Automate the full service lifecycle to reduce manual toil across provisioning, deployment, patching, and recovery.
Troubleshoot complex distributed system failures and lead deep root-cause analysis for long-term fixes.
Integrate AI tools and practices throughout the software development lifecycle.
Implement security standards to ensure every layer of the solution is independently secure.
What we're looking for
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field and 4+ years of experience coding in languages like C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python.
Active U.S. Government Top Secret Clearance with access to Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) based on a Single Scope Background Investigation (SSBI) with Polygraph.
Verification of U.S. citizenship is required due to legal restrictions for government agency support.
Master's Degree in Computer Science or related field and 6+ years of technical engineering experience coding in C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python (preferred).
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field and 8+ years of technical engineering experience coding in C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python (preferred).
Power Automate
Power Platform
Dataverse
SRE
CI/CD
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
C++
C
Distributed Systems
Observability
Telemetry
Root Cause Analysis
Site Reliability Engineering
Power Automate
Dataverse
Power Apps
C#
Python
Java
JavaScript
C++
C
SRE
CI/CD
Distributed Systems
Observability
Telemetry
Root Cause Analysis
Site Reliability Engineering