Microsoft
Software Engineer - CTJ - Poly
$85K–$184K
Reston, VA +1 · On-site · Full-time · Posted Oct 6, 2026
- Location
- Reston, VA
Redmond, WA - Experience
- Required: proven coding experience; no minimum years stated. Preferred: 1+ year(s) technical engineering experience with a bachelor's degree, or a master's degree with proven coding experience, or equivalent experience.
- Education
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical discipline, or equivalent experience. Preferred alternatives include a related technical bachelor's degree with 1+ year(s) technical engineering experience, or a related technical master's degree with proven coding experience, or equivalent experience.
About the job
Designs, builds, secures, and operates cloud-scale services and platform components for security-critical and highly regulated environments.
What you'll do
- Design, implement, test, and maintain cloud-scale services and platform components.
- Build features supporting security, compliance, management, and reliability for internal platforms and customer-facing services.
- Investigate live-site issues and participate in 24x7 on-call rotations to maintain service health and reliability.
What they ask for
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or a related technical discipline, with proven coding experience in a listed language, or equivalent experience.
- Must have an active U.S. Government Top Secret Security Clearance.
- Must meet security screening requirements, pass the Microsoft Cloud background check, and verify U.S. citizenship.
Nice to have
- Experience with CI/CD and Infrastructure as Code tools such as Azure DevOps, Bicep, Terraform, or ARM.
- Experience building or operating Azure cloud services; distributed systems, observability, or regulated environments are also relevant.
Pay
USD $85,400 - $168,100 per year (base salary); USD $111,100 - $183,700 per year (base salary)
Tools
C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Python, Rust, Azure DevOps
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