Software Engineer II - CTJ - Poly

Microsoft • Reston, VA

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About The Position

As a Software Engineer II on Microsoft’s Specialized Cloud team, you will help design, deliver, and secure highly reliable services that support internal security platforms and customer-facing cloud offerings. The work protects mission-critical environments with demanding trust, compliance, and operational requirements. You will address complex challenges across software engineering, distributed systems, security engineering, and reliability in a fast-paced, agile setting, while developing your technical ownership and engineering expertise.

Microsoft describes its mission as empowering every person and organization to achieve more. Employees bring a growth mindset, innovate, collaborate, and uphold respect, integrity, and accountability to foster an inclusive culture.

This role requires an active U.S. Government Top Secret Clearance with access to SCI based on an SSBI with Polygraph, as well as successful clearance verification and a Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire or transfer and every two years thereafter. U.S. citizenship must be verified. Candidates must meet applicable Microsoft, customer, and government security screening requirements before an offer and after hire; failure to maintain or obtain required clearance or screening may result in employment action, including termination.

The typical U.S. base pay range is USD $102,100–$202,200 per year. For the San Francisco Bay Area and New York City metropolitan area, the range is USD $133,800–$219,200 per year. Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Applications are accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled, and the posting will remain open for at least five days. Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer and provides information about requesting religious or disability accommodations during the application process.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field and at least 2 years of technical engineering experience coding in languages such as C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python, or equivalent experience.
• 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.
• Must meet Microsoft, customer, and/or government security screening requirements before an offer and after hire.
• Must successfully verify the stated security clearance; clearance verification information will be requested before an employment offer.
• Must pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire or transfer and every two years thereafter.
• Must verify U.S. citizenship due to citizenship-based legal restrictions applicable to the government customer work.

Nice To Haves

• Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field and at least 3 years of technical engineering experience coding in languages such as C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python, or equivalent experience.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field and at least 5 years of technical engineering experience coding in languages such as C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python, or equivalent experience.
• Experience building and supporting large-scale production services, including logging, monitoring, alerting, reliability, and availability.
• Hands-on experience with DevOps systems, including source code management, CI/CD pipelines, and code review tools.
• Strong debugging skills and ability to solve issues across operating systems, applications, and cloud environments.
• Familiarity with cloud computing, virtual machines, and networking.
• Experience with security disciplines such as event collection, monitoring, detection engineering, or vulnerability management in cloud environments.
• Proficient communication skills and demonstrated ability to collaborate with multidisciplinary teams, including Software Engineers, Program Managers, and Data Scientists.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, test, and maintain cloud-scale services and platform components for security-critical and highly regulated environments.
• Build features and systems supporting security, compliance, management, and reliability scenarios for internal Microsoft platforms and customer-facing services.
• Collaborate with security, operations, program management, compliance, and other partner teams to deliver end-to-end solutions.
• Investigate and resolve live-site issues and contribute to operational excellence and service reliability.
• Participate in 24x7 on-call rotations to support service health, respond to incidents, and help restore service quickly and safely.
• Apply secure-by-design principles throughout the development lifecycle, including threat modeling and defense-in-depth practices.
• Learn new technologies, seek feedback, and gradually take on broader technical ownership.
• Write clean, maintainable, well-tested code in accordance with Microsoft engineering standards and best practices.
• Embody Microsoft’s company culture and values.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level