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About Microsoft
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 on the Secure Device engineering team within the Secure Production Access group, you will lead efforts to modernize secure access experiences and ensure world-class reliability for services used by thousands of engineers. You will be responsible for identifying dependencies, developing design documents, and creating, optimizing, and debugging code to improve performance and maintainability. Your role involves acting as a Designated Responsible Individual to monitor systems for degradation and implementing robust product validation and release management practices. The position requires proficiency in programming languages such as C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python. You will solve complex technical problems related to securing production environments and scaling cloud services. Preferred skills include experience with telemetry-driven decision making, live-site engineering, networking, operating systems, authentication stacks, and large distributed systems within cloud environments like Microsoft Azure.
What does a Software Engineer earn in Washington?
Median $208250 from 287 postings across 31 companies.
Create, implement, optimize, debug, and refactor code to improve performance and maintainability.
Identify technical dependencies and develop design documents for products, applications, services, or platforms.
Act as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) to monitor systems and resolve service degradations or outages.
Implement robust product validation and release management practices to ensure confident deployments.
Drive project plans, release plans, and work items by leveraging subject-matter expertise.
Proactively research new technologies and patterns to improve system reliability, efficiency, and observability at scale.
Modernize secure access experiences and scale internal products for high-volume usage.
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.
Candidates must be able to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire and every two years thereafter.
Master's Degree in Computer Science or related field and 6+ years of technical engineering experience (preferred).
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field and 8+ years of technical engineering experience (preferred).
Experience with telemetry-driven decision making and live-site engineering practices (preferred).
Strong debugging skills across networking, operating systems, or authentication stacks (preferred).
Experience working in cloud environments such as Microsoft Azure (preferred).
Experience designing and scaling cloud services or large distributed systems (preferred).
Azure
Python
C++
C#
Java
JavaScript
C
Machine Learning
Distributed Systems
CI/CD
DevOps
Azure OpenAI
Azure ML
Azure AI Studio
Software Architecture
SDLC
Telemetry