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Site Reliability Engineer II

Microsoft· Site Reliability Engineering
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Reston, VA$102.1k - $202.2kFull-timePosted 2w ago

About the role

Site Reliability Engineer II to design, deliver, and own the reliability of Office 365 government cloud services, working with large-scale, high-availability systems for government customers.

Responsibilities

  • Demonstrates expertise in distributed systems design and cloud technology; modifies code to improve reliability with minimal guidance.
  • Contributes to product availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance through onboarding, reviews, and collaboration with engineering teams.
  • Researches industry trends and applies new solutions to improve availability and performance.
  • Suggests changes to product features or code based on production telemetry data.
  • Develops and tests changes to optimize code and improve observability, reliability, and operability.
  • Participates in code/design reviews, on-call rotations, incident responses, and regular meetings with product engineering teams.
  • Designs, develops, and maintains telemetry pipelines and monitoring tools; analyzes telemetry to derive insights for improvements.
  • Responds to incidents during on-call shifts; creates post-mortems and shares resolution details.
  • Develops alerts and instrumentation to monitor capacity and resource demands; analyzes telemetry data to optimize resources.
  • Identifies opportunities to automate operations and accelerate safe production changes; monitors impact across components.
  • Engages with engineering teams to propose improvements across components and features.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field and 2+ years of technical experience in software engineering, network engineering, or systems administration
  • OR Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field and 1+ year of technical experience in software engineering, network engineering, or systems administration
  • OR equivalent experience.

Skills

Required:Distributed systems designTelemetry and observabilityCode and feature changes based on telemetryIncident response and on-call

Benefits

  • Benefits information referenced but not enumerated in the description; available per Microsoft policy
Last updated Oct 9, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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