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Software Engineer - CTJ - Poly

Microsoft· Software Engineering
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Reston, VA, Redmond, WA$85.4k - $168.1kfull-timePosted 2w ago

About the role

Software Engineer in Microsoft’s Specialized Cloud team designing, delivering, and securing cloud-scale services for security-critical environments. Focus on reliability, security, compliance, and collaboration with partner teams in a fast-paced, on-site role.

Responsibilities

  • Design, implement, test, and maintain cloud-scale services and platform components used in security-critical and highly regulated environments.
  • Build features and systems that support security, compliance, management, and reliability scenarios for both internal Microsoft platforms and customer-facing services.
  • Write clean, maintainable, and well-tested code following Microsoft engineering standards and best practices.
  • Participate in design discussions, architecture reviews, and code reviews to ensure solutions are scalable, secure, and resilient.
  • Collaborate closely with partner teams such as security, operations, program management, and compliance to deliver end-to-end solutions.
  • Investigate and resolve live-site issues, contributing to strong operational excellence and service reliability.
  • Use telemetry, data, and customer feedback to improve system performance, reliability, and security posture.
  • Participate in 24x7 on-call rotations to support service health, respond to incidents, and help restore service quickly and safely.
  • Apply secure-by-design principles throughout the development lifecycle, including threat modeling and defense-in-depth practices.
  • Demonstrate a growth mindset by learning new technologies, seeking feedback, and gradually taking on broader technical ownership.

Qualifications

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

Skills

Required:Programming languages (C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Python)
Nice to have:Security concepts

Benefits

  • Not specified in the description
Last updated Oct 9, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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