Senior Software Engineer - CTJ - Top Secret

   
Office 365 is at the center of Microsoft’s cloud first, devices first strategy as it brings together cloud versions of our most trusted communication and collaboration products like Exchange, SharePoint, and Teams with our cross-platform desktop suites and mobile apps. The Office 365 Enterprise Cloud team works with Microsoft’s largest enterprise and government customers to deliver features that meet their specific needs and enable cloud adoption. As you would expect, our customers have the highest expectations for feature quality, security, reliability, availability, and performance.  


The Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team provides leadership, direction and accountability for application architecture, system design, and end-to-end implementation. As a Senior Software 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.   
   

At Microsoft, we can offer you great teams, exciting challenges, and a fun place to work. The work environment empowers you to have a positive impact on millions of end 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.

Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

Responsibilities

Technical Knowledge and Domain-Specific Expertise 

• Demonstrates end-to-end expertise in distributed systems design, interactions between cloud technology layers and components, functions of physical network devices, and dependencies at scale. Drives efforts within an organization to identify and recommend optimal configurations of cloud technology solutions and develops or modifies the code base that defines infrastructures to improve the reliability and operability of supported products. 
• Develops end-to-end technical expertise in the architecture, code, features, and operations of specific products as required to implement improvements in product availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and/or performance. Drives code/design reviews with the engineering teams that develop and/or manage those products and shares learnings and recommendations across engineering teams working on related products within their organization. 
• Researches and maintains deep knowledge of industry trends as well as advances in large-scale distributed systems and cloud technologies; identifies opportunities to create, implement, and/or optimally utilize new tools, technologies, and/or processes to solve ambiguous problems and improve product availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and/or performance. Drives the adoption of new solutions across engineering teams working with related products within an organization and provides guidance and coaching to others on relevant topics. 

Contributions to Development and Des