Microsoft
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Software Engineer - CTJ - TS (Cleared)

Pay
$85,400 – $168,100 per year
Location
Redmond, WA · On-site
Job type
Full-time
Level
Mid-level
Education
Bachelor's degree
Listed
28 days ago

Skills & highlights for this role

  • Top Secret security clearance
  • U.S. citizenship verification
  • Microsoft Cloud background check
  • C#
  • Java
  • Python
  • distributed systems
  • cloud infrastructure

Also useful

  • Azure
  • cloud-native applications

About the role

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.

Bachelor's 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 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.

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.

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.

Master's 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 Bachelor's 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.

Read the original posting

From Microsoft's careers page, first listed on Rolev.ai on October 11, 2026. Rolev.ai is not the employer.

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