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Senior Software Engineer - Azure Policy Team

at Microsoft

Mid LevelNo visa sponsorshipGolang

Posted 5 hours ago

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Compensation: $119,800 – $234,700 USD
City: San Francisco, New York City
Country: United States

A Senior Software Engineer on the Azure Policy team responsible for designing, implementing, and delivering high-quality code powering Azure Policy services. You will help build scalable governance solutions to manage Azure resources at scale, collaborating with cross-functional teams to improve reliability, observability, and performance. The role involves on-call ownership, developing playbooks, and staying current with trends to ensure safe, scalable policy enforcement.

Overview

The Azure Policy team’s mission is to support customers in governing Microsoft Azure resources at scale by enabling them to prevent non-compliant deployments, modify existing resources, or deploy additional resources to maintain compliance. To fulfill this vision, it is essential to ensure that policies applied across large Azure environments are implemented safely and without disruption to existing workloads.

As a Senior Software Engineer on the Azure Policy team, you will be responsible for designing, implementing, and delivering high-quality code that powers Azure Policy services. You will contribute to building scalable and performant governance solutions that help customers manage their cloud environments effectively. We are looking for an engineer who is motivated, collaborative, and committed to continuous learning. This role offers the opportunity to work on impactful technologies, engage with cross-functional teams, and help shape the future of cloud governance.

Responsibilities

Collaborates with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a scenario.
Drives identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for a product, application, service, or platform.
Creates, implements, optimizes, debugs, refactors, and reuses code to establish and improve performance and maintainability, effectiveness, and return on investment (ROI).
Leverages subject-matter expertise of product features and partners with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project managers) to drive a workgroup's project plans, release plans, and work items.
Acts as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) and guides other engineers by developing and following the playbook, working on call to monitor system/product/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions, alerting stakeholders about status and initiates actions to restore system/product/service for simple and complex problems when appropriate.
Proactively seeks new knowledge and adapts to new trends, technical solutions, and patterns that will improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while also driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale.

Qualifications

Required 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#, Go, Java OR Python
- OR equivalent experience.

Other Requirements:

Ability 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:
- Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Preferred Qualifications:

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science
- OR related technical field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Go, Java OR Python.
- OR Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Go, Java OR Python
- OR equivalent experience.
2+ years experience working with Azure Cloud services.
2+ years experience building Kubernetes controllers, operators, or admission webhooks, experience implementing or enhancing OPA/Gatekeeper/Policy-based systems.

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Software Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $119,800 - $234,700 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $158,400 - $258,000 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:
https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.

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