Safety Engineer

Microsoft Corporation; Victorville (CA); On-site; USD 111,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Mentorship

Benefits

Flexibility

Job summary

Microsoft Corporation in Victorville, CA seeks a Safety Engineer with 5+ years in technology to join a temporary, growth‑oriented team. The role offers a salary range of $111,000 to $150,000 with mentorship, benefits, and flexibility, as the position scales with you.

Key responsibilities include reviewing PRs, improving observability, and refining test automation, while leveraging PostgreSQL, Terraform, and Flask.

Qualifications

• 7 years of technology experience required.
• Senior level proficiency expected.
• Excellent written and verbal communication.
• Strong multitasking and organizational skills.
• Experience with Terraform preferred.

Responsibilities

• Review pull requests and uphold engineering standards across the technology team.
• Turn Microsoft's PostgreSQL on-call noise into alerts that actually mean something.
• Enhance test automation frameworks to increase release confidence.
• Architect fault-tolerant distributed systems leveraging Adaptability and Flask.
• Replace the brittle Flexibility hack with a JavaScript solution that survives Victorville scale.
• Stand up observability so Microsoft sees failures before customers in CA do.
• Shave milliseconds off the technology hot path that Microsoft users feel every click.
• Cut Terraform cold-start times so Microsoft functions wake before CA users notice.

Skills

7 years of technology experience

Senior-level proficiency

Effective written and verbal

Multitasking and organization

Tools

Terraform

PostgreSQL

Flask

Job description

We're after a Safety Engineer whose idea of a good day is a fun-loving pull request that closed three tickets and opened zero. If you have 5 years in technology, this temporary job offers $111,000 - $150,000 plus the room to lead and grow.

Key Responsibilities

• Review pull requests and uphold engineering standards across the technology team
• Turn Microsoft's PostgreSQL on-call noise into alerts that actually mean something
• Enhance test automation frameworks to increase release confidence
• Architect fault-tolerant distributed systems leveraging Adaptability and Flask
• Replace the brittle Flexibility hack with a JavaScript solution that survives Victorville scale
• Stand up observability so Microsoft sees failures before customers in CA do
• Shave milliseconds off the technology hot path that Microsoft users feel every click
• Cut Terraform cold-start times so Microsoft functions wake before CA users notice

What You'll Bring

• Resilience measured across 7 years of technology cycles
• Comfort being measured against a clear senior bar
• Sharp written and verbal communication, tested under scrutiny
• Sharp organizational skills and an ability to juggle multiple workstreams

Microsoft took everything frustrating about technology and rebuilt it from scratch in Victorville, CA, with unfussy attention to Terraform. Collaboration over heroics is our default, and we'd rather win as a group than burn anyone out.

The bottom line: $111,000 - $150,000, mentorship, benefits, and flexibility, wrapped into a Safety Engineer role that grows as fast as you do.

Freshly bumped to active, the Victorville, CA role takes applicants today.