Senior Software Engineer - CTJ - TS/SCI at Microsoft

Department: Software Engineering

Compensation

$119,800 – $234,700/yr

Setup: Hybrid
Location: Reston, Virginia
Type: Full-time
Level: senior
Posted: Sep 15, 2026

Description

Microsoft is hiring a Senior Software Engineer to own substantial engineering efforts across Azure control-plane services, including Azure Resource Manager and adjacent services. The role covers technical design, implementation, deployment, production operation, distributed-system troubleshooting, service reliability, automation, observability, and mentoring other engineers. Candidates need a bachelor's degree in computer science or a related technical field and at least four years of technical engineering experience with coding in languages such as C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python, plus eligibility for TS/SCI clearance and U.S. citizenship verification. The typical U.S. base pay range is USD 119,800–234,700 per year, with higher ranges for the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area.

Required Skills

Distributed systems
C#
Java
Observability
Debugging
Technical design

Additional Information

Minimum Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field
Required Previous Experiences: At least 4 years of technical engineering experience with coding in C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python, or equivalent experience
Preferred Qualifications: 6+ years of software engineering experience designing, building, debugging, or operating production services
Ability to diagnose complex software and distributed-system failures using source code, logs, telemetry, debuggers, and diagnostic tools
Experience reading, reviewing, and modifying unfamiliar codebases and tracing behavior across services and system layers
Strong understanding of distributed-systems concepts, including asynchronous processing, concurrency, fault tolerance, consistency, retries, idempotency, and failure recovery
Experience taking substantial or ambiguous engineering projects from initial investigation and design through implementation, deployment, and production operation
Experience developing and debugging software using C#, Java, or another object-oriented programming language
Ability to influence technical decisions across teams and help other engineers improve code quality, debugging practices, system designs, and engineering judgment
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