Junior Power Platform Developer Jobs in Bothell, WA

Job Summary:
Microsoft has an exciting opportunity for a Senior Software Engineer in the Microsoft Specialized Clouds Power Platform team, focused on building, deploying, and operating Power Automate services within Air‑Gapped and Sovereign Cloud environments. The role involves ensuring service reliability, operational excellence, and driving improvements while collaborating with various teams to deliver features and maintain system performance.
Responsibilities:
• Acts as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) for service components, owning availability, reliability, and operational health
• Participates in on-call rotations, responding to incidents by assessing impact, troubleshooting issues, mitigating customer impact, and driving resolution
• Leads or contributes to root cause analysis (RCA) and postmortems, ensuring learnings translate into systemic improvements
• Uses existing tools and develops new capabilities to troubleshoot issues affecting availability, performance, security, and efficiency
• Leverages telemetry and monitoring to identify trends, detect anomalies, and proactively improve service health
• Drives improvements in observability, alerting, and diagnostics
• Leads and contributes to architecture and design discussions for components of Power Platform services
• Identifies dependencies across teams and incorporates them into design specifications and execution plans
• Ensures systems meet performance, scalability, security, and compliance requirements, especially within air‑gapped constraints
• Develops and improves CI/CD pipelines and deployment systems, enabling safe, repeatable, and automated releases
• Drives zero-touch or low-touch deployment automation using internal tooling and safe deployment practices
• Improves engineering efficiency by reducing manual operations and operational toil
• Collaborates with Public Cloud teams to onboard features, resolve dependencies, and align environments
• Supports integration and validation across Power Platform services (Power Automate, Dataverse, Power Apps)
• Participates in sprint planning, backlog grooming, and execution to deliver engineering commitments
• Develops a deep understanding of service architecture, code, and operational behavior at scale
• Identifies opportunities to improve reliability, performance, and operational maturity, and drives those improvements
• Mentors engineers, shares knowledge, and contributes to team standards and best practices
• Leverages modern tools, including AI-assisted development, to improve productivity and code quality
Qualifications:
Required:
• 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.
• Candidates must be able to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role.
• The successful candidate must have an active U.S. Government Top Secret Clearance with access to Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) based on a Single Scope Background Investigation (SSBI) with Polygraph.
• Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role.
• Failure to maintain or obtain the appropriate U.S. Government clearance and/or customer screening requirements may result in employment action up to and including termination.
• This position requires successful verification of the stated security clearance to meet federal government customer requirements.
• You will be asked to provide clearance verification information prior to an offer of employment.
• This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
• This position requires verification of U.S. citizenship due to citizenship-based legal restrictions.
• Citizenship will be verified via a valid passport, or other approved documents, or verified US government Clearance.
Preferred:
• Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience.
Company:
Microsoft provides computer software, consumer electronics, cloud computing platforms, and digital enterprise systems. Founded in 1975, the company is headquartered in Redmond, USA, with a team of 10001+ employees. The company is currently Late Stage.