Software Engineer - CTJ - Top Secret

Microsoft•Reston, VA

22h•$85,400 - $183,700

About The Position

As a Software Engineer on Microsoft’s Specialized Cloud team, you will help design, deliver, and secure highly reliable services supporting internal security platforms and customer-facing cloud offerings. The work contributes to protecting mission-critical environments with demanding trust, compliance, and operational-excellence requirements. You will address complex systems and security challenges in a fast-paced, agile setting, collaborating with experienced engineers on software engineering, distributed systems, security engineering, and reliability. The role calls for rigorous engineering and a strong focus on security and reliability. The position is classified as Software Engineering IC2. Candidates must hold an active TS clearance and be eligible and willing to upgrade to TS/SCI with polygraph, or hold an active TS/SCI clearance and be eligible and willing to upgrade to TS/SCI with polygraph. The role requires maintaining TS/SCI with polygraph clearance, passing applicable security screening and background checks, and verification of U.S. citizenship.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical discipline, with proven coding experience in one or more languages such as C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python, or equivalent experience.
Must have an active TS clearance and be willing and eligible to upgrade to TS/SCI with polygraph, or have an active TS/SCI clearance and be willing and eligible to upgrade to TS/SCI with polygraph.
Must maintain TS/SCI with polygraph clearance and meet Microsoft, customer, and/or government security-screening requirements before and after hire.
Must successfully verify the stated security clearance 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 customers supported.

Nice To Haves

Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field, with proven coding experience in languages such as C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python.
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.

Responsibilities

Use appropriate AI tools and practices across the software development lifecycle, review AI-generated changes, and take responsibility for their content.
Use debugging, tests, tools, logs, and telemetry to verify assumptions and proactively address production issues.
Conduct incident retrospectives, identify root causes, implement repair actions, and help prevent incidents from recurring.
Apply least-access principles and use logging, telemetry, and other appropriate methods to investigate issues while protecting privacy and security.
Review product and test code for team standards, test coverage, quality, security risks, compliance issues, coding patterns, and best practices; provide timely feedback and help develop other engineers’ skills.
Create and implement code for products, services, or features, reusing code where applicable and aiming for extensible, maintainable, reliable, diagnosable code with few defects.
Escalate development blockers and unknowns, communicate their timeline impact, and help identify strategies to address them.
Evaluate design options, outlining their strengths and weaknesses, and provide feedback on architecture proposals and product or solution features.
Collaborate with architects and engineers on solution architecture and feature design, contribute to design documents, and take ownership of some design decisions.
Help ensure system architecture and designs meet performance, scalability, resiliency, cost, security, privacy, and compliance requirements.
Share investigation findings and contribute analyses that inform product-feature engineering decisions.
Create a test strategy to ensure solution quality and prevent regressions, and execute test plans that include security testing to validate security invariants.