Microsoft
Principal Site Reliability Engineer- CTJ- Secret
$143K–$304K
Redmond, WA +1 · On-site · Principal · Full-time · Posted Oct 22, 2026
- Location
- Redmond, WA
Reston, VA - Experience
- Required: 2+ years with a doctorate, 3+ with a master's, or 5+ with a bachelor's in a relevant field; or equivalent experience. Preferred: 5+, 8+, or 12+ years, respectively; or equivalent experience. Also preferred: 7+ years with large-scale cloud or distributed systems.
- Education
- Doctorate, master's, or bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field, or equivalent experience.
About the job
Sets technical and operational reliability direction for Microsoft Substrate workloads, leading incident response and delivering reliability improvements across teams.
What you'll do
- Define reliability strategy, SLO frameworks, and operational practices; lead on-call response and complex incidents.
- Architect and deliver automation, observability, and self-healing solutions, and drive reliability, security, and compliance into service design.
- Lead post-incident improvements, influence engineering across organizational boundaries, and mentor senior and principal engineers.
What they ask for
- Doctorate plus 2+ years, master's plus 3+ years, or bachelor's plus 5+ years of technical experience in software engineering, network engineering, or systems administration; or equivalent experience.
- Must have an active U.S. Government Secret Security Clearance and meet required security screenings.
- Must verify U.S. citizenship.
Nice to have
- Doctorate plus 5+ years, master's plus 8+ years, or bachelor's plus 12+ years of relevant technical experience; or equivalent experience.
- 7+ years of technical experience working with large-scale cloud or distributed systems.
Pay
USD $142,800 - $274,800 per year (base salary); USD $188,000 - $304,200 per year (base salary)
Tools
Microsoft Substrate, Exchange Online, M365 Copilot
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