**Overview** Join the Platforms, Applications, Cloud and Engineering (PACE) team and help to transform the ITAR Escort experience across the U.S. Government clouds. ITAR Escorts are approved and authorized individuals who supervise and accompany accessing ITAR‑controlled data, systems, and environments, ensuring strict compliance with control regulations. As a Senior Software Engineer, you will design and build software that improves the day‑to‑day experience for workload engineers operating in U.S. Government cloud environments, with a strong focus on security, and usability. 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** + Design – Propose architecture that is scalable, reliable, follows a security‑first strategy, and leverages AI‑driven solutions. + Compliance Reviews – Ensure the architecture aligns with Microsoft Security, Privacy, and Responsible AI principles. Lead design reviews with the relevant compliance teams, participate in their assessments, and adjust the architecture based on the outcomes. + Implementation – Implement software according to the approved design while keeping reliability, scalability, and security as core priorities. + Deployment Pipelines – Design and implement deployment pipelines that support secure and reliable delivery. + On‑Call – Participate in on‑call rotations. **Qualifications** **Required Qualifications -** + Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or a related technical field AND technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to C# (preferably), C++, Java. + Azure Expertise: Solid understanding of Azure cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, and deployment models. + CI/CD: Experience with DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, and automation frameworks. **Preferred Qualifications -** + Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field, and strong technical engineering experience coding in languages such as C# (preferably), C++, and Java. + Azure Expertise: Advanced expertise in Azure cloud services and architectural patterns across compute, networking, storage, databases, and security. + Security Mindset: Security‑by‑design mindset, including threat modeling, least‑privilege access, secure coding practices, secrets management, and dependency hygiene; familiarity with SFI, Shift Left security, and compliance workflows in regulated environments such as ITAR and GCC/GCCH/DoD. + Hands‑on with observability: Telemetry design, tracing, metrics/SLOs, and log pipelines; using tools such as Kusto (KQL) to analyze reliability and performance. + Production Operations: Experience running services in production, including on‑call rotations, incident response, RCA, and corrective and preventive actions; driving operational excellence. + CI/CD: Solid skills in CI/CD, automated quality gates, secure supply chain practices, blue/green and canary deployments, and infrastructure as code. + Containers and Orchestration: Practical knowledge of containerization and orchestration, including networking, ingress, and workload identity. + Architecture and APIs: Experience designing and reviewing service architecture and APIs, documenting trade‑offs, and leading design reviews. + AI Tooling: Proficiency with AI and Microsoft tooling to accelerate engineering for code, tests, and documentation. + Performance Engineering: Experience with capacity planning, load testing, cache design, and latency optimization. \#SeniorSoftwareEngineer #PACE #Engineering 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. (https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/accessibility.html)