Microsoft · 1 hour ago
Senior Site Reliability Engineer
Redmond, WA
Full-time
Hybrid
Mid, Senior Level
$120K/yr - $235K/yr
4+ years expMicrosoft is a leading technology company committed to empowering every person and organization on the planet. As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer, you will build and operate mission-critical components of distributed systems, focusing on reliability, security, and performance at a global scale.
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Responsibilities
Contribute to the design, implementation, and operation of secure, reliable network and infrastructure services supporting Microsoft Teams’ microservices environment
Improve reliability by developing and refining monitoring, alerting, dashboards, and automated recovery mechanisms across critical control‑plane and data‑plane systems
Troubleshoot complex issues involving traffic routing, gateway behavior, certificate and TLS issues, DNS, CDN interactions, and network security policies
Serve as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) on a rotational basis triaging incidents, driving mitigations, documenting learnings, and helping improve live‑site processes
Participate in root‑cause analyses (RCAs) and implement durable fixes that eliminate recurring issues
Optimize the performance, reliability, and availability of services through data‑driven analysis using metrics, logs, and distributed tracing
Work closely with partner engineering teams (security, networking, microservices, compliance, governance) to deliver integrated improvements across shared infrastructure layers
Influence project designs by providing SRE perspective on reliability, scalability, testability, operability, and security
Contribute to documentation, patterns, and best practices that raise the operational bar across the broader Teams engineering organization
Identify opportunities for automation using scripts, pipelines, policy‑driven guardrails, or AI‑enabled tooling to reduce manual toil and increase engineering productivity
Stay current on emerging technologies, cloud infrastructure patterns, and security developments; apply new techniques to strengthen service reliability and efficiency
Qualification
Required
Master's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND 2+ years technical experience in software engineering, network engineering, or systems administration
OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND 4+ years technical experience in software engineering, network engineering, or systems administration
OR equivalent experience
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
Experience with core networking concepts including TCP/IP fundamentals, routing, load balancing, CDN, ACL/firewalling, TLS, certificate lifecycle management
Ability to diagnose and remediate performance or availability issues using logs, metrics, traces, and standard network troubleshooting tools
Hands‑on experience operating services in a cloud environment (Azure or equivalent)
3+ years technical experience working with large-scale cloud or distributed systems
Experience with network security, cloud security controls, identity‑driven security policies, and certificate management at scale
Familiarity with large‑scale cloud infrastructure (IaaS), microservices patterns, API gateways, and global routing architectures
Experience leveraging automation frameworks, scripting, GitOps, Infrastructure‑as‑Code, or AI‑driven tooling to improve reliability and reduce operational load
Demonstrated ability to partner across teams, influence without authority, and contribute to multi‑team initiatives or modernization efforts
Company
Microsoft
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