Senior Software Development Engineer - CTJ - TS/SCI

Do you have a passion for launching innovative customer experiences and working with some of Microsoft’s most critical customers?  

We work with teams across the company to drive the enablement and adoption of Azure and Office at all classification levels (Unclassified, Secret, Top Secret). We own bespoke internal and customer-facing software that supports customer onboarding. This puts us in a unique position to orchestrate end-to-end customer experiences, working with partners across Microsoft (Security, SAP, Commerce, Finance and product teams) to deliver business impact. We are looking for a Software Engineer (SWE) to engage with cross-functional teams to stabilize and enhance existing software/tools that support Microsoft’s US Sovereign clouds and our US Government customers. 

The Azure Silver team is looking for a Senior Software Development Engineer with a keen interest in building innovative solutions. This is a rare opportunity for an early-mid career Development Engineer to learn about exciting new technologies, work in a team with a startup-DNA, on products unique to sovereign clouds. 

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.

Required/minimum qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
  • OR equivalent experience.

Other Requirements:

Security Clearance Requirements: Candidates must be able 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:  

• The successful candidate must have an active U.S. Government Top Secret/SCI Security Clearance.  Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. Failure to maintain or obtain the appropriate clearance and/or customer screening requirements may result in employment action up to and including termination.
• Clearance Verification: This position requires successful verification of the stated security clearance to meet federal government customer requirements. You will be asked to provide clearance verification information prior to an offer of employment.
• Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.   
• Citizenship & Citizenship Verification: This position requires verification of U.S. citizenship due to citizenship-based legal restrictions. Specifically, this position supports United States federal, state, and/or local United States government agency customer 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, or other approved documents, or verified US government Clearance. 

#Silver

An ideal candidate will have the following:   

• Considerable development experience in all phases of the product lifecycle   

• Excellent collaboration skills within and across teams   

• Passion or experience building highly scalable, highly available cloud-based software and services   

• Experience with containerized solution development, deployment and DevOps including container orchestration, application management, infrastructure and software provisioning  

• Drive automation and reliability across the release lifecycle 

• Monitor and troubleshoot release systems to ensure speed, stability, and transparency 

Core Backend Technologies: 

• .NET (modern version) with C# 

• ASP.NET Core for Web APIs 

• Azure Functions (serverless compute) 

• RESTful API design with OpenAPI/Swagger 

Frontend Technologies: 

• React with TypeScript 

• Modern build tooling (Vite or Create React App) 

• React Router for navigation 

• MSAL (Microsoft Authentication Library) for authentication 

Azure Cloud Platform: 

• Azure App Services (web app hosting) 

• Azure Functions (serverless/background jobs) 

• Cosmos DB (NoSQL database) 

• Azure Storage (Blob storage, queues) 

• Azure Key Vault (secrets management) 

• Application Insights (monitoring & telemetry) 

• Azure Event Grid (event-driven architecture) 

• Azure Data Factory (data orchestration) 

• Azure Data Explorer (Kusto) (analytics) 

• ARM Templates (Infrastructure as Code) 

Authentication & Security: 

• Microsoft Entra ID  

• OAuth 2.0 / OpenID Connect 

• Managed identities for Azure resources 

Testing: 

• xUnit (C# unit testing) 

• Moq (mocking framework) 

• Alba (integration testing) 

• Jest (JavaScript/TypeScript testing) 

• React Testing Library 

• Playwright (end-to-end testing) 

DevOps & Tooling: 

• Azure DevOps with YAML pipelines 

• OneBranch build system 

• PowerShell scripting 

• Azure CLI 

• Git version control 

• EV2 (Express V2) deployment orchestration 

Development Practices: 

• Dependency injection patterns 

• Resilience patterns (Polly for retry logic) 

• Health checks and monitoring 

• Code analysis and security scanning 

• Infrastructure as Code 

Additional Libraries & Patterns: 

• AutoMapper (object mapping) 

• HTTP client patterns with resilience 

• Event-driven architectures 

• Background job processing 

This is a full-stack Azure-native development role requiring both modern web development skills and deep Azure cloud platform knowledge.