Microsoft Senior Software Engineer - CTJ Top Secret 

United States, Virginia 

117314564

Secure Cloud Access accelerates and simplifies the onboarding and connectivity to sensitive mission workloads. We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to add to our growing team building out several new Microsoft products. In this role, you will have the opportunity to work with engineers who enable a broad set of Azure services to be consumed by internal and external customers in highly secured and regulated industries. The systems and software you build will be required to meet the security policy and assurance requirements of both public and private sector customers.

Required Qualifications:

• 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.

Other Requirements:

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:

• The successful candidate must have an active U.S. Government Top Secret Security 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 customerscreening 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 requires verification of U.S. citizenship due to citizenship-based legal restrictions. Specifically, this position supports United States federal, state, and/or local United States government agency customer and is subject to certain citizenship-based restrictions where required or permitted by applicable law. To meet this legal requirement, citizenship will be verified via a valid passport, or other approved documents, or verified US government Clearance.

Preferred Qualifications

• • Bachelor'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#, Java
    • • OR equivalent experience.
• Experience working on large-scale distributed services with on-call responsibilities
• Proficiency with TypeScript or JavaScript
• Experience with modern front-end frameworks such as React or Vue
• Outstanding technical problem-solving and debugging skills
• Passion for quality with experience designing and implementing automated tests, including unit tests and integration tests
• Effective communication skills

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:Microsoft will accept applications for the role until February 13, 2025.

• Design, produce and deliver software to improve the reliability, scalability, performance, security, efficiency, etc. of a service, having independence, sense of ownership and drive for areas of ownership
• Participate actively in code reviews, bug/issue triage with the feature teams, and support well informed decisions towards business and engineering goals
• Contribute to fixing, enhancing, and supporting our services in production, including periodic on-call duties where necessary
• Ensuring that design empowers other developers to achieve more, while effectively leveraging components developed by other teams
• Driving features, projects, and open-ended problems towards resolution
• Take initiative to identify and fix bottlenecks, proactively come up with the proposals for further improvements of the system, process and owned functionality
• Contribute to operations of live service. Implements solutions and mitigations to more complex issues impacting performance or functionality of Live Site service and escalates as necessary.
• Review and lead postmortem discussions sharing insights with the team for continual improvement
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