Microsoft Senior Site Reliability Engineer 

United States, Washington 

710967205

TheSenior Site Reliability Engineering(SRE) team provides leadership, direction and accountability for application architecture, system design, and end-to-end implementation. As a Site Reliability Engineer, you will identify and deliver software improvements using your expertise in software development, complexity analysis, and scalable system design. Collaboration skills will be required to work closely with other engineering teams to ensure services/systems are highly stable and performant, meeting the expectations of our government customers and users.

The right candidate for this job (is):

• Passionate about distributed systems and working with highly scalable services
• Enjoys new technological challenges and is motivated to solve them
• Excited about making better software and continuously improving the development, integration, and deployment processes
• Smart, highly motivated, self-starter who thrives in a bottoms-up, fast-paced, highly technical environment
• Effective collaborator, experienced in creating technical partnerships across teams
• Unwavering passion for meeting customer demands and delivering a dial tone service

Required Qualifications

• 6+ years technical experience in software engineering, network engineering, or systems administration
  • OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND 3+ years technical experience in software engineering, network engineering, or systems administration
  • OR Master's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND 2+ years technical experience in software engineering, network engineering, or systems administration.

Other Requirements

Ability 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:

• Controlled Technology : This role will require access to information that is controlled for export under export control regulations, potentially under the U.S. International Traffic in Arms Regulations or Export Administration Regulations, the EU Dual Use Regulation, and/or other export control regulations. As a condition of employment, the successful candidate will be required to provide proof of citizenship, U.S. permanent residency, or other protected status (e.g., under 8 U.S.C. § 1324b(a)(3)) for assessment of eligibility to access the export-controlled information. To meet this legal requirement, and as a condition of employment, the successful candidate’s citizenship will be verified with a valid passport. Lawful permanent residents, refugees, and asylees may verify status using other documents, where applicable."
• Citizenship & Citizenship Verification : This position requires verification of U.S. citizenship due to citizenship- based legal restrictions. Specially, this position supports United Statesfederal, state, and/or local United States government agency customers 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.
• Microsoft Cloud Background Check : This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Preferred Qualifications

• 7+ years technical experience in software engineering, network engineering,
  • OR systems administration
  • OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology,
  • OR related field AND 4+ years technical experience in software engineering, network engineering,
  • OR systems administration
  • OR Master's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology,
  • OR related field AND 3+ years technical experience in software engineering, network engineering,
• 2+ years of engineering or systems experience
• Familiarity with one or more general purpose programming languages including but not limited to: Java, C/C++, C#, Python, JavaScript, PowerShell
• Experience with the Microsoft cloud and/or stack including O365, Azure, Windows or other Microsoft software/services
• Experience leveraging cloud architecture, applying site reliability principles, and/or demonstrating sensitivity to operational concerns
• Demonstrated ability to debug, fix, and optimize code.
• Full-stack troubleshooting skills across network, application, hardware, management fabric, and distributed services layers
• Ability to communicate, both verbal and written.

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 July 15, 2024.

• Design, develop, and deliver the required software engineering to serve and protect O365 government clouds
• Own deployment, availability, reliability, performance and customer escalation targets for sovereign environments
• Proactively identify and reduce issues through design, testing, and implementation of software-based solutions
• Collaborate with Engineering and Program Management partners to translate customer, business, and technical requirements into architectural designs and feature releases
• Drive efficiencies through software improvement and root cause analysis resulting in service delivery, maturity, and scalability
• Work within a highly skilled team of engineers to deliver revolutionary improvements to the cloud and scale them
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