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Software Engineer II - CTJ - Poly

Microsoft

Location

MD, MD, Reston, VA

Type

Full-time

Posted

9/24/2026

Compensation

$102,100 - $219,200 per year

Undergraduate with 2+ Years of Experience
H-1B FY202696.0% approval-64% YoY
👑 Elite sponsor

Job description

This role involves working on Azure's resiliency and recovery capabilities, focusing on helping customers migrate to Azure and safeguard their applications. The team operates in sovereign and air-gapped cloud environments, addressing unique engineering challenges. Candidates will engage with Azure Compute and Microsoft engineering teams to enhance service health and operational excellence. The ideal candidate should be proactive, collaborative, and eager to influence engineering decisions.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field and 2+ years of technical engineering experience with coding in languages such as C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python.
  • Active U.S. Government Top Secret Clearance with access to Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI).
  • Ability to meet Microsoft, customer, and/or government security screening requirements.

Responsibilities

  • Own customer-impacting technical problems from identification through resolution, ensuring long-term improvements to service reliability and resiliency.
  • Design and implement solutions that enhance the migration, protection, recovery, and operational experience of workloads in Azure.
  • Lead investigations into complex service issues and analyze system data to determine root causes.
  • Partner with teams across Azure to identify dependencies and deliver capabilities to sovereign and air-gapped cloud environments.
  • Champion operational excellence by improving service observability and recovery processes for mission-critical workloads.

Benefits

  • Employees at Microsoft are often offered comprehensive, “world-class” benefits—including health and mental-wellness programs, competitive pay with bonuses and stock awards, and retirement/savings options. Time-off and flexibility are common, with generous vacation and holidays, parental and caregiver leave, and flexible work schedules, alongside learning support, employee resource groups, product discounts, and matching-gifts/volunteering programs. Specific benefits can vary by region.

H-1B filing history

Public USCIS petition and DOL LCA counts · latest USCIS FY2026, LCA FY2026

Filing entity: Microsoft Corporation

As of Aug 23, 2026

Initial approvals

503

FY2026

Approval rate

96.0%

FY2026

LCA certified

3,062

FY2026

Entry-level share

5.7%

FY2026

Initial approvals YoY

-64%

Trend

LCA certified YoY

-83%

Trend

Initial approvals by fiscal year

Approval rate by fiscal year

Continuing vs initial approvals

LCA certified positions by quarter

LCA certified positions by fiscal year

Based on public USCIS and DOL filings; not a sponsorship guarantee.

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