Senior Software Engineer - CTJ - TS​/SCI Security Clearance

Position: Senior Software Engineer - CTJ - TS/SCI with Security Clearance
Overview Microsoft is seeking Senior Software Engineer to support its Security organization. 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. Microsoft Purview solutions offer integrated coverage to address data fragmentation across organizations, improve visibility for data protection and governance, and address the merging of traditional IT management roles. Our team ensures the consistent and efficient delivery of Microsoft Purview solutions across all specialized environments, including Government and Sovereign clouds, while complying with relevant standards and regulations.

We are seeking a Principal Software Engineering Manager to lead high-impact infrastructure initiatives for Microsoft Purview, driving technical strategy and execution with broad visibility across teams and ensuring compliance with stringent security and regulatory standards. 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 Responsibilities:
* Design and deliver scalable services for data security and compliance across multi-cloud environments. Build automation frameworks to streamline compliance workflows and reduce manual effort. Lead architecture improvements for core systems to enhance security and efficiency. Collaborate with cross-org teams to align on goals and integrate compliance standards. Mentor peers and review code to ensure best practices in security and quality.

* Mentor and develop junior engineers, providing technical guidance, code reviews, and support to help them grow their engineering skills and deliver high-quality work.

* Lead and contribute to unified infrastructure initiatives that standardize and optimize Microsoft Purview service deployments across all cloud regions, including highly secured and sovereign cloud environments.

* Support buildout, configuration, validation, and readiness of assigned Purview services across commercial, government, and restricted cloud environments, ensuring reliable, compliant, and scalable service operations.

* Partner with cross-functional stakeholders (engineering, PM, security, compliance, and operations teams) to identify opportunities to enhance security posture, deployment efficiency, and service maintainability.

* Drive technical definition and execution of unified infrastructure projects, developing clear architectural approaches, implementation plans, and ongoing improvements for the engineering team.

* Provide subject-matter expertise for restricted and highly secured environments, including advising on architectural patterns, engineering constraints, data flows, and service feature enablement for workloads that require U.S. government security clearances.

* Ensure compliance and audit readiness by supporting evidence collection, documentation, and operational reviews required for annual certifications, service approvals, and governance processes for assigned services.

* Improve engineering quality and automation by identifying gaps, reducing manual work, and implementing scalable solutions that strengthen consistency and resiliency across deployments.

* Collaborate across teams to resolve service, infrastructure, or deployment issues, ensuring timely mitigation, root-cause identification, and long-term reliability improvements.

* Embody our culture and values . 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#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience. 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…