Microsoft
Sr. Software Engineer - CTJ - Poly
$120K–$261K
Reston, VA +1 · On-site · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 1, 2026
- Location
- Reston, VA
Redmond, WA - Experience
- 4+ years; preferred alternatives: 6+ years with a Master's Degree, or 8+ years with a Bachelor's Degree; equivalent experience accepted.
- Education
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field, or equivalent experience.
About the job
Builds and operates scalable, reliable cloud security services for Microsoft Defender in government environments.
What you'll do
- Build and improve scalable, highly reliable services and engineering practices for complex cloud environments.
- Design and automate service-scale features and customer requirements; investigate and fix production and pre-production issues.
- Participate in an on-call rotation, typically 24/7 for one week every 6–8 weeks, within a secure facility.
What they ask for
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field and 4+ years of technical engineering experience coding in listed languages, or equivalent experience.
- Must have an active U.S. Government Top Secret Clearance with access to SCI based on an SSBI with Polygraph.
- Must meet required security screening requirements and pass the Microsoft Cloud background check.
- U.S. citizenship verification is required.
Nice to have
- Master's Degree and 6+ years of technical engineering experience, or Bachelor's Degree and 8+ years, or equivalent experience.
- Experience with CI/CD and Git; exposure to Docker, Kubernetes or other containerization technologies, and large-scale production services.
Pay
USD $119,800 - $234,700 per year (base salary); USD $160,200 - $261,000 per year (base salary)
Tools
C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Python, Git, Docker
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