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Software Engineer II - CTJ - Poly

Microsoft
Reston, VA Full-time 12/2/2025 $100,600 - $258,000 a year
Undergraduate with 2+ Years of Experience

Job Description

Join the Microsoft Defender engineering team as a Software Engineer II, where you'll build and deliver cutting-edge cloud security solutions to protect millions of computers from cyber threats. You'll collaborate with engineering teams to ensure service stability and performance in complex cloud environments.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 2+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
  • Active U.S. Government Top Secret Clearance with access to Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI)
  • Ability to pass Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter
  • Verification of U.S. citizenship

Responsibilities

  • Build and improve services to be scalable and highly reliable
  • Help deliver and improve engineering systems and practices for complex cloud environments
  • Contribute to design and automate service scale features and customer requirements
  • Investigate pre-production and production issues, implement, and deploy fixes
  • Participate in an on-call rotation (typically 24/7 for one week every 6-8 weeks)