Senior Software Engineer - CTJ - Poly; child Security Clearance

Position: Senior Software Engineer - CTJ - Poly (child) with Security Clearance
Overview Do you have a passion for large-scale services and working with some of Microsoft's most critical customers? We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer with the right mix of software development, on-line services experience and passion for quality to envision, design, and deliver Microsoft 365 government cloud service offerings. Microsoft 365 is at the center of Microsoft's cloud first, devices first strategy as it brings together cloud versions of our most trusted communication and collaboration products like Exchange, SharePoint, and Teams with our cross-platform desktop suites and mobile apps.

The Microsoft 365 Sovereign Cloud team works with Microsoft's largest government customers to deliver features that meet their specific needs and enable cloud adoption. As you would expect, our customers have the highest expectations for feature quality, security, reliability, availability, and performance.
The software engineering team provides leadership, direction, and accountability for application architecture, system design, and end-to-end implementation. As a Software Engineer II, you will identify and deliver software improvements using your expertise in software development, complexity analysis, and scalable system design. Collaboration skills will be required to work closely with other engineering teams to ensure services/systems are highly stable and performant, meeting the expectations of our government customers and users.

At Microsoft, we can offer you great teams, exciting challenges, and a fun place to work. The work environment empowers you to have a positive impact on millions of end users.

The right candidate for this job (is):
-Passionate about distributed systems and working with highly scalable services.
-Enjoys new technological challenges and is motivated to solve them.
-Excited about making better software and continuously improving the development, integration, and deployment processes.
-Self-starter who thrives in a bottoms-up, fast-paced, highly technical environment.
-Effective collaborator, experienced in creating technical partnerships across teams. Unwavering passion for meeting customer demands and delivering a dial tone service. 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.

Responsibilities AI-Native Development
* Independently uses appropriate artificial intelligence (AI) tools and practices across the software development lifecycle (SDLC) in a disciplined manner.
* Takes responsibility for the content of their AI-generated requirements, design documents, code, and other assets, assisting other members of the team to do the same.

* Uses SDLC and engineering health measures (e.g., Accelerate, SPACE framework, Engineering System Success Playbook [ESSP]) to improve processes and practices, especially those involving AI.
* Experiments with AI tools and practices to improve their own capabilities.
Coding
* Reviews product code and test code to ensure it meets team standards, contains the correct test coverage, and is appropriate for the product or solution area.

* Brings insight to code reviews to help improve code quality, coaching and providing feedback to develop other engineers' skills.

* Conducts code reviews in a timely fashion that helps accelerate the pace of development on the team.

* Considers diagnosability, reliability, testability, and maintainability when reviewing code, and understands when code is ready to be shared or delivered.

* Applies and reviews for coding patterns, security risks, compliance issues, and best practices in code reviews, providing feedback on code to drive adherence to best practices.

* Uses automated source code analysis tools that are incorporated into the build/development process.

* Uses debugging tools, tests, logs, telemetry, and other methods to proactively verify assumptions while developing code…