Microsoft
Software Engineer II - CTJ - Poly
$102K–$219K
Reston, VA +1 · On-site · Full-time · Posted Oct 22, 2026
- Location
- Reston, VA
Redmond, WA - Experience
- 2+ years technical engineering experience; equivalent experience accepted as an alternative to the degree-and-experience qualification.
- Education
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field, or equivalent experience.
About the job
Develop and operate secure, scalable Azure Data usage-billing services that ingest, process, and monitor high-volume data for Azure products.
What you'll do
- Design, build, test, and improve reliable Azure Data services and their deployment processes.
- Use telemetry and analytics to monitor service health, improve products, and inform engineering decisions.
- Maintain live services, respond to incidents, and resolve complex issues while meeting security and compliance standards.
What they ask for
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field and 2+ years technical engineering experience coding in languages including C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python, or equivalent experience.
- Active U.S. Government Top Secret Clearance with access to SCI based on an SSBI with Polygraph.
- Meet required Microsoft, customer, and/or government security screening requirements; pass the Microsoft Cloud background check.
- U.S. citizenship, subject to verification.
Nice to have
- ITIL certification.
- Experience coordinating service restoration across teams, analyzing performance traces and crash dumps, and troubleshooting distributed services.
Pay
USD $102,100 - $202,200 per year (base salary); USD $133,800 - $219,200 per year (base salary)
Tools
Azure Data, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Python
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