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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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Software Engineer II - CTJ - Poly joins the Microsoft Specialized Clouds Teams Phone team to build, deploy, and operate Teams Phone services within air-gapped and sovereign cloud environments. This role focuses on developing scalable, secure, and resilient distributed systems that provide critical communication experiences in highly regulated, mission-critical settings. You will design and maintain reliable code, participate in on-call rotations, troubleshoot live-site issues, and implement automation to improve operational excellence. The work involves ensuring feature parity with public cloud offerings while managing complex requirements for security and compliance. Required skills include proficiency in languages such as C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python. Preferred experience includes large-scale distributed systems, PSTN telephony systems, Ansible, and CI/CD pipelines like Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions to deliver reliable deployments within these specialized infrastructure environments.
What does a Software Engineer earn?
Median $197875 from 2180 postings across 138 companies.
Design, implement, and maintain clean, reliable, and testable code for Teams Phone services.
Utilize AI tools responsibly throughout the software development lifecycle while validating all generated changes.
Build extensible and maintainable features with high standards for diagnosability and production-readiness.
Participate in on-call rotations to troubleshoot live-site issues and improve telemetry systems.
Develop automation, tooling, and documentation to improve engineering and operational excellence.
Deliver scalable, secure, and resilient distributed systems for air-gapped and sovereign cloud environments.
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.
Active U.S. Government Top Secret Clearance with access to Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) based on a Single Scope Background Investigation (SSBI) with Polygraph.
Verification of U.S. citizenship is required due to legal restrictions for government agency support.
Master's Degree and 3+ years of experience, or a Bachelor's Degree and 5+ years of experience in coding are preferred.
1+ years of technical experience working with large-scale cloud or distributed systems (preferred).
Experience operating or deep technical knowledge of PSTN telephony systems (preferred).
Experience building automation with Ansible and developing/operating CI/CD pipelines like Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions (preferred).
C
C++
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
CI/CD
Git
Windows
Linux
Kubernetes
Azure DevOps
GitHub
Logging
Monitoring
Alerting
Service Architecture
Infrastructure Development
Azure
C
C++
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
CI/CD
Azure DevOps
Git
GitHub
Linux
Windows
Full Stack Development
Cloud-Native Architecture
Monitoring
Logging
Alerting
Scripting