Software Engineer II - CTJ - Poly

Microsoft • Redmond, WA

2d • $102,100 - $219,200

About The Position

As a Software Engineer II in Microsoft’s Specialized Cloud team, you will help design, deliver, and secure highly reliable services underpinning internal security platforms and customer-facing cloud offerings. The work supports mission-critical environments with demanding trust, compliance, and operational-excellence requirements.

You will address systems and security challenges in a fast-paced, agile setting and collaborate with experienced engineers on software engineering, distributed systems, security engineering, and reliability. The role emphasizes rigorous engineering, operational excellence, security, and reliability.

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 hiring.
• Must successfully verify the stated security clearance.
• 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.

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 a bachelor’s degree in a related field and at least 5 years of such experience; 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.
• Excellent communication skills and 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 for internal Microsoft platforms and customer-facing services.
• Collaborate with security, operations, program management, compliance, and partner teams to deliver end-to-end solutions.
• Investigate and resolve live-site issues and contribute to service reliability and operational excellence.
• Participate in 24x7 on-call rotations to support service health, respond to incidents, and restore service safely and quickly.
• 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.

What This Job Offers

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