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About Microsoft
Microsoft Corporation is a global technology leader producing software, hardware, and cloud services including Windows, Office 365, Azure cloud platform, Xbox gaming, and Surface devices. Industry: Software & Cloud Computing
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Listed pay typically runs
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As a Software Engineer II - CTJ - Poly on the Specialized Cloud team, you will design, implement, and maintain cloud-scale services and platform components for security-critical and highly regulated environments. You will build features supporting security, compliance, management, and reliability for both internal platforms and customer-facing offerings while collaborating with partner teams to deliver end-to-end solutions. Your daily work involves solving complex problems in distributed systems, security engineering, and reliability, including participating in 24x7 on-call rotations to resolve live-site issues. You will apply secure-by-design principles, threat modeling, and defense-in-depth practices while writing clean code. The role requires proficiency in programming languages such as C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python. This position addresses the technical challenge of securing mission-critical environments that demand high levels of trust and operational excellence.
What does a Software Engineer earn?
Median $197500 from 2196 postings across 133 companies.
Design, implement, test, and maintain cloud-scale services for security-critical and regulated environments.
Build features supporting security, compliance, management, and reliability for internal and customer-facing platforms.
Investigate and resolve live-site issues to ensure service health and operational excellence.
Participate in 24x7 on-call rotations to respond to incidents and restore services quickly.
Apply secure-by-design principles, including threat modeling and defense-in-depth practices, throughout the development lifecycle.
Write clean, maintainable, and well-tested code following established Microsoft engineering standards.
What we're looking for
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field and 2+ years of experience coding in languages like C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python.
Must possess 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 be a U.S. citizen as verified by a valid passport or other approved documents.
Master's Degree in Computer Science and 3+ years of experience, or a Bachelor's Degree and 5+ years of experience (preferred).
Experience building and supporting large-scale production services including logging, monitoring, alerting, and ensuring reliability (preferred).
Hands-on experience with DevOps systems, source code management, CI/CD pipelines, and code review tools (preferred).
Strong debugging skills across operating systems, applications, and cloud environments (preferred).
Familiarity with cloud computing, virtual machines, networking, and security disciplines like detection engineering or vulnerability management (preferred).
C
C++
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
CI/CD
Git
Windows
Linux
Kubernetes
Azure DevOps
GitHub
Logging
Monitoring
Alerting
Service Architecture
Infrastructure Development