Software Engineer - CTJ - Poly

Software Engineer - CTJ - Poly

United States, Virginia, Reston

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Job description

Company and benefits

Job number

200059345

Date posted

Oct 06, 2026

Work site

3 days / week in-office

Travel

Less than 25%

Profession

Software Engineering

Discipline

Software Engineering

Role type

Individual Contributor

Employment type

Full-Time

Overview

Are you interested in building and securing cloud-scale software that protects some of the world’s most sensitive and mission-critical environments? As a Software Engineer in Microsoft’s Specialized Cloud team, you’ll help design, deliver, and secure highly reliable services that underpin both internal security platforms and customer-facing cloud offerings. Your work will directly contribute to protecting mission-critical environments that demand the highest levels of trust, compliance, and operational excellence.

In this role, you’ll solve complex systems and security challenges in a fast-paced, agile setting. You’ll collaborate with experienced engineers to solve complex problems in software engineering, distributed systems, security engineering, and reliability, leveraging modern tools and engineering practices. This is an opportunity to grow your career in a position that demands rigorous engineering, robust operational excellence, and an obsession with security and reliability.

At Microsoft, our mission—to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more—guides how we partner with customers to deliver trusted, impactful solutions. With a growth mindset culture, we innovate responsibly and measure success by shared progress—people, teams, and customers. Join us to do meaningful work that changes the world and helps shape what’s next for everyone.

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.
• Embody our culture and values.

Qualifications

Required 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.

Other Requirements:

• Security Clearance

Requirements

• Candidates must be able to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are require