Senior Software Engineer - CTJ - Top Secret
 Microsoft | |
$119,800.00 - $234,700.00 / yr
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 United States, Washington, Redmond | |
 Jun 03, 2026 | |
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Overview
Come join the Identity team as a Senior Software Engineer! The ideal fit works with appropriate internal stakeholders to understand and determine customer/user requirements for a set of features. Understands and provides feedback for proposals for architecture, with technical leadership from others. Contributes to identifying dependencies, and incorporates them into the development of design documents for a product area with little oversight. Creates and implements code for a product, service, or feature, reusing code as applicable with minimal supervision. Learns about and supports deployment to customers by following the correct measures to push features out to customers. Identifies areas to contribute to efforts to integrate logging and instrumentation for gathering telemetry data on system behavior such as performance, reliability, usage, and safety mechanisms, and for allowing monitoring and investigating security-related concerns for both live and A/B experiments. Contributes to efforts to ensure the correct processes are followed to achieve a high degree of security, privacy, safety, and accessibility. Applies best practices to build code based on well-established methods and secure design principles while also applying best practices for new code development and formal validation of security invariants. Works with partner teams to ensure a set of product features work well with the components of the partner team with minimal supervision before going live. 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 psychological safety where everyone can thrive at work. Responsibilities 1. Develops a clear test strategy and executes tests including security testing with minimal supervision, improving coverage and reliability.
2. Identifies dependencies and collaborates with other teams to integrate and validate overlapping concerns while contributing to design documentation.
3. Provides feedback on architectural proposals and collaborates on design decisions, ensuring performance, scalability, and compliance with security and privacy standards. 4. Ensures correct processes for security, privacy, safety, and accessibility compliance are followed and maintains awareness of regulatory requirements. 5. Applies best practices for coding, security, and scalability, supports deployment practices including safe change deployment and rollback planning. 6. Acts as a designated responsible individual (DRI) for live site monitoring, incident response, and improving operational documentation to enhance reliability. 7. Collaborates with stakeholders to understand user requirements and incorporates customer insights as well as contributes to code reviews and continuous quality improvement. 8. Embodies our culture and values.
Qualifications Required/Minimum Qualifications:
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:
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 $160,200 - $261,000 per year. Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: 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. | |