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Software Engineer - CTJ - Poly

Microsoft· Software Engineering
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Reston, VA, Redmond, WA, Annapolis Junction, MD$102.1k - $202.2kfull-timePosted 7mo ago

About the role

Software Engineer opportunity in Microsoft’s Cloud+AI Azure Data Team focused on deploying and operating Azure Data services in secure, air-gapped environments for regulated industries, contributing to AI-native development, design, engineering excellence, and reliability.

Responsibilities

  • AI-Native Development: Uses AI tools across the SDLC and takes responsibility for AI-generated changes to artifacts with minimal guidance.
  • Coding: Debugging, testing, telemetry, incident retrospectives, secure and compliant code reviews, writing extensible and maintainable code, applying GenAI and best practices, communicating blockers and timelines.
  • Design: Evaluate architecture proposals, design options, create design documents, ensure performance/scalability/resilience/COGS, uphold security and privacy standards, develop clear test strategies and test plans including security testing, leverage AI for testing, identify dependencies and collaborate across teams.
  • Engineering Excellence: Automate deployments, secure coding practices, tooling improvements, security monitoring, stay current on security/privacy/ accessibility, collaborate with partner teams for end-to-end testing and scalability, ongoing learning and sharing of engineering principles.
  • Implement: Plan and execute work items with stakeholders, ensure security protections, flighting for production features, deployment readiness, dependency monitoring, rollback planning, and production-like testing; conduct experiments with feature flags and cross-team collaboration.
  • Reliability and Supportability: On-call operations, incident response, enhance troubleshooting guides and telemetry, secure operations and monitoring, improve live-site experience, diagnose issues and implement mitigations.
  • Understand User Requirements: Gather customer/user requirements with stakeholders, incorporate feedback, ensure security/privacy needs are reflected in designs.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 2+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience.

Skills

Required:Programming languagesSecurity and complianceTesting and quality
Nice to have:Debugging and incident responseAbility to work with AI tools in SDLC

Benefits

  • See Microsoft careers page for benefits information.
Last updated Jun 25, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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