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Site Reliability Engineer

Microsoft

Microsoft

Software Engineering
USD 81,900-160,200 / year
Posted on Apr 25, 2025

Site Reliability Engineer

Redmond, Washington, United States

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Date posted
Apr 24, 2025
Job number
1820025
Work site
Up to 50% work from home
Travel
None
Role type
Individual Contributor
Profession
Software Engineering
Discipline
Site Reliability Engineering
Employment type
Full-Time

Overview

Security represents the most critical priorities for our customers in a world awash in digital threats, regulatory scrutiny, and estate complexity. Microsoft Security aspires to make the world a safer place for all. We want to reshape security and empower every user, customer, and developer with a security cloud that protects them with end to end, simplified solutions. The Microsoft Security organization accelerates Microsoft’s mission and bold ambitions to ensure that our company and industry is securing digital technology platforms, devices, and clouds in our customers’ heterogeneous environments, as well as ensuring the security of our own internal estate. Our culture is centered on embracing a growth mindset, a theme of inspiring excellence, and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day. In doing so, we create life-changing innovations that impact billions of lives around the world.

If you're driven to join a dynamic team, building cutting-edge systems with a profound impact, Microsoft invites you to explore an opportunity within the Secure Admin Services (SAS) team, part of Microsoft’s CISO organization. The Secure Admin Services team is a dynamic, supportive community of engineers and program managers committed to delivering top-tier cybersecurity solutions in a highly collaborative and inclusive environment. This team is committed to protecting users and valuable enterprise assets.


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.

In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

  • 3+ years technical experience in software engineering, network engineering, or systems administration
    • OR bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field.

Preferred Qualifications:

  • 4+ years’ technical experience in software engineering, network engineering, or systems administration
    • OR bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Technology, or related field AND 2+ year(s) technical experience in software engineering, network engineering, or systems administration
    • OR master's degree in computer science, Information Technology, or related field.

#SRE #MSFTSecurity #CISOOrg

Site Reliability Engineering IC2 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $81,900 - $160,200 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 $105,600 - $174,600 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

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until Tuesday, April 29th, 2025.

Responsibilities

Cloud Virtualization

  • Has foundational knowledge and work experience with technologies to ensure seamless cloud infrastructure operations.

Networking

  • Understands networking concepts (TCP/IP, DNS, Load Balancing, VPNs, Proxy etc.)
  • Implement networking solutions that enable reliability and scalability across public and private cloud platforms.

Development and Design

  • Contributes to development by engaging in coding, design reviews. Leverages these experiences and telemetry data to suggest and build improvements to specific product components.

Incident Management

  • Responds to on-call incidents by assessing impact, resolving basic issues, and escalating complex or widespread problems to other engineers; documents resolutions through post-mortems and review meetings.

Telemetry

  • Read, write, configure, and implement end-to-end service telemetry, smart alerting, and self-healing capabilities for platforms.

Collaboration

  • Ability to exercise cross-team co-operation and influence.

Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.
Industry leading healthcare
Educational resources
Discounts on products and services
Savings and investments
Maternity and paternity leave
Generous time away
Giving programs
Opportunities to network and connect

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 and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.