Microsoft
Software Engineer II - CTJ - Poly
$102K–$219K
Reston, VA +1 · On-site · Full-time · Posted Sep 22, 2026
- Location
- Reston, VA
Redmond, WA - Experience
- 2+ years technical engineering experience; preferred: 4+ years with PowerShell, C#, or C++.
- Education
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field, or equivalent experience.
About the job
Builds and operates secure, reliable software and infrastructure for Azure Government Clouds, extending confidential computing and encryption to regulated and air-gapped environments.
What you'll do
- Contribute to application architecture, cloud-agnostic infrastructure, automation, and end-to-end implementation for Government Clouds.
- Analyze service metrics, test code, improve product reliability and performance, and communicate findings with engineering partners.
- Serve on-call as a Designated Responsible Individual, respond to incidents, escalate issues, and write postmortems.
What they ask for
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 2+ years technical engineering experience coding in a listed language, OR equivalent experience.
- Active U.S. Government Top Secret Clearance with SCI access based on an SSBI with Polygraph.
- Meet required Microsoft, customer, and/or government security screening requirements, including the Microsoft Cloud background check.
- Verify U.S. citizenship due to citizenship-based legal restrictions.
Nice to have
- Experience with large-scale distributed services and on-call responsibilities.
- 4+ years of experience with PowerShell, C#, or C++; understanding of CI/CD concepts, including Azure DevOps and GitHub.
Pay
USD $102,100 - $202,200 per year (base salary); USD $133,800 - $219,200 per year (base salary)
Tools
Azure, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Python, PowerShell
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