Software Engineer CTJ TS (Cleared)

Join the Microsoft Specialized Cloud (MSC) team where engineers build and operate highly secure cloud platforms services and developer experiences that support mission-critical workloads for U.S. Government customers. MSC software engineering teams design develop and evolve technologies that enable customers to operate at scale while meeting specialized security compliance and operational requirements. Drawing on expertise across distributed systems cloud infrastructure data reliability performance and developer productivity engineers collaborate across Microsoft to deliver trusted resilient and innovative solutions.

Working in Microsoft Specialized Clouds offers unique opportunities to solve technical challenges not commonly found in commercial cloud environments. Engineers build software for highly regulated and security-sensitive scenarios develop solutions that operate in specialized and restricted environments and help shape cloud technologies that support critical government missions and services.

We welcome engineers with diverse experiences perspectives and approaches to problem solving. We believe innovation is strengthened through inclusion and are committed to creating an environment where individuals can learn grow and contribute meaningfully. Whether your experience comes from industry research open-source projects military service technical training or other pathways we encourage you to apply.

At Microsoft our missionto empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve moreguides how we partner with customers to deliver trusted impactful solutions. With a growth mindset culture we innovate responsibly and measure success by shared progresspeople teams and customers. Join us to do meaningful work that changes the world and helps shapewhatsnext for everyone.

This role is targeting a Summer 2027 (May- September) start date.

• Contribute to the design and evolution of scalable distributed systems APIs services and platform capabilities balancing requirements related to security reliability performance maintainability and cost.
• Develop automated tests monitoring telemetry and operational tooling to improve software quality observability and long-term service health.
• Apply security privacy and compliance best practices throughout the software development lifecycle while working within specialized cloud environments.
• Diagnose debug and resolve technical issues across the software stack using data and telemetry to improve performance reliability and maintainability over time.
• Design implement test and maintain software features and services that meet customer and product requirements while operating within specialized security and compliance constraints.
• Participate in operational activities including monitoring incident response and readiness reviews to ensure services remain dependable in specialized and restricted environments.
• Partner with product managers designers security engineers infrastructure teams and engineering peers to deliver customer-focused solutions.
• Learn new technologies tools and engineering practices while contributing to a culture of knowledge sharing continuous improvement and technical growth.
• Collaborate with teammates to analyze requirements review designs and code and continuously improve engineering quality reliability and operational readiness.
• Embody our culture and values.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelors 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 required for this role. These requirements include but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings:

• The successful candidate must have an active U.S. Government Top Secret Security Clearance. Ability to meet Microsoft customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. Failure to maintain or obtain the appropriate clearance and/or customer screening requirements may result in employment action up to and including termination.
• Clearance Verification: This position requires successful verification of the stated security clearance to meet federal government customer requirements. You will be asked to provide clearance verification information prior to an offer of employment.
• Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
• Citizenship & Citizenship Verification: This position requires verification of U.S. citizenship due to citizenship-based legal restrictions. Specifically this position supports United States federal state and/or local United States government agency customer and is subject to certain citizenship-based restrictions where required or permitted by applicable law. To meet this legal requirement citizenship will be verified via a valid passport or other approved documents or verified US government Clearance.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Masters Degree in Computer Science or related technical field with proven experience coding in languages including but not limited to C C C# Java JavaScript or Python
  • OR Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 2 years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including but not limited to C C C# Java JavaScript or Python
  • OR equivalent experience.
• Experience building cloud-native applications or services on Azure or another major cloud platform.
• Experience with distributed systems microservices APIs or large-scale backend services.
• Experience with containers Kubernetes infrastructure as code or modern CI/CD practices.
• Experience using telemetry monitoring logging or observability solutions to diagnose and improve system health.
• Experience developing applications for regulated security-sensitive or highly available environments.
• Experience applying AI-assisted development tools or building AI-enabled applications.

Software Engineering IC2 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $85400 - $168100 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $111100 - $183700 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:
position will be open for a minimum of 5 days with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age ancestry citizenship color family or medical care leave gender identity or expression genetic information immigration status marital status medical condition national origin physical or mental disability political affiliation protected veteran or military status race ethnicity religion sex (including pregnancy) sexual orientation or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process read more about requesting accommodations.

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