Microsoft

Software Engineer I - CTJ - Poly

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4 days ago
Reston, VA, USAEntry Level
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Base Salary

$85k - $184k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design, implement, test, and maintain cloud-scale services and platform components.
  • Build systems supporting security, compliance, management, and reliability scenarios for internal and customer-facing services.
  • Collaborate with security, operations, program management, compliance, software engineering, and data science teams.
  • Investigate live-site issues, respond to incidents, participate in 24x7 on-call rotations, and restore service safely.
  • Apply secure-by-design principles, threat modeling, and defense-in-depth throughout development.
  • Write clean, maintainable, and well-tested code while gradually taking on broader technical ownership.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical discipline with proven coding experience, or equivalent experience.
  • Proven coding experience in C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python.
  • Ability to pass Microsoft, customer, and/or government security screening requirements, including the Microsoft Cloud Background Check.
  • Preferred qualifications include a master’s degree or a bachelor’s degree plus 2+ years of technical engineering experience, or equivalent experience.
  • Experience building and supporting large-scale production services with logging, monitoring, alerting, reliability, and availability practices.
  • Hands-on experience with DevOps systems, source code management, CI/CD pipelines, and code review tools.
  • Strong debugging skills across operating systems, applications, and cloud environments.
  • Familiarity with cloud computing, virtual machines, and networking.
  • Experience with cloud security disciplines such as event collection, monitoring, detection engineering, or vulnerability management.
  • Strong communication and collaboration skills with multidisciplinary teams.

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Microsoft

About Microsoft

10,000+ employees

Microsoft develops operating systems, productivity software, cloud services, developer tools, and consumer devices for individuals, enterprises, and governments. Its main products include Windows, Microsoft 365, Azure, Visual Studio/GitHub, Xbox, and LinkedIn; revenue comes from software subscriptions and licenses, cloud consumption, hardware sales, and advertising. Founded in 1975 and headquartered in Redmond, Washington, Microsoft is a public company traded on Nasdaq.

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