Microsoft
Senior Software Engineer - CTJ - TS/SCI
$120K–$261K
Reston, VA · On-site · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 22, 2026
- Experience
- 4+ years required; 6+ years preferred.
- Education
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field, or equivalent experience.
About the job
Operates and improves Azure Resource Manager and related control-plane services across specialized clouds, including engineering, deployment, and production support.
What you'll do
- Lead engineering efforts from investigation and design through implementation, deployment, and operation; resolve complex distributed-system issues.
- Improve service portability, reliability, automation, observability, and operational performance across commercial and specialized clouds.
- Participate in on-call incident response and provide technical leadership through design reviews, code reviews, and mentoring.
What they ask for
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field and 4+ years technical engineering experience coding in languages including C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python, or equivalent experience.
- Active TS/SCI clearance and willingness and eligibility to upgrade to TS/SCI (with polygraph), and ability to maintain it.
- Must pass required security screenings, including the Microsoft Cloud background check.
- U.S. citizenship verification is required.
Nice to have
- 6+ years of software engineering experience designing, building, debugging, or operating production services.
- Experience with distributed systems, production debugging, unfamiliar codebases, or developing and debugging with C#, Java, or another object-oriented language.
Pay
USD $119,800 - $234,700 per year (base salary); USD $160,200 - $261,000 per year (base salary) for the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area
Tools
C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Python
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