Senior Software Engineer - CTJ - TS/SCI

About the role

Take end-to-end ownership of substantial engineering efforts across Azure control-plane services, from initial investigation and technical design through implementation, deployment, and production operation. Partner with Azure engineering teams to deliver service updates that meet the requirements of specialized clouds.

Investigate and resolve complex issues spanning distributed services, deployment systems, infrastructure, and environmental dependencies. Use source code, telemetry, logs, and service architecture to identify root causes and drive durable corrective actions. Identify assumptions and dependencies that limit where Azure services can operate.

Design and influence improvements that make services more portable, environment-agnostic, reliable, and maintainable across commercial and specialized clouds. Act as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) and participate in on-call rotations for mission-critical services.

Diagnose service degradation and outages, communicate status to stakeholders, restore service within established objectives, and ensure incidents result in meaningful engineering improvements. Improve service delivery through automation, deployment safety, observability, performance optimization, and the elimination of repetitive operational work.

Use production experience and service data to prioritize improvements with measurable impact. Provide technical leadership through code reviews, design discussions, debugging guidance, and hands-on collaboration. Mentor other engineers and help strengthen their coding, debugging, design, and engineering decision-making skills.

Proactively evaluate new technologies, tools, and engineering practices that can improve developer productivity, service quality, and operational effectiveness. Apply sound technical judgment to determine where they provide meaningful value while meeting security, compliance, reliability, and operational requirements. Embody our culture and values.

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. government security screening requirements are required for this role. but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings: Candidates must have an active TS/SCI and be willing and eligible to upgrade to TS/SCI (with polygraph).

This role will require candidates to maintain the TS/SCI (with polygraph) clearance. 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. 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.

6+ years of software engineering experience designing, building, debugging, or operating production services. Demonstrated ability to diagnose complex software and distributed-system failures using source code, logs, telemetry, debuggers, and other 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. Demonstrated ability to influence technical decisions across teams and help other engineers improve their code quality, debugging practices, system designs, and engineering judgment.