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Software Engineer II - CTJ - Poly

Location
Redmond | United States, WA · On-site
Job type
Full-time
Level
Mid-level
Experience
2+ years
Education
Bachelor's degree
Listed
29 days ago

Skills & highlights for this role

  • Top Secret clearance with SCI
  • polygraph
  • Kubernetes
  • CI/CD
  • Git
  • Windows/Linux system administration

Also useful

  • Azure DevOps
  • GitHub

About the role

The team provides leadership, direction and accountability for application architecture, Cloud design, Infrastructure development and end to end implementation for our Sovereign and Government Clouds. Demonstrated collaboration skills will be required to work closely with other engineering teams to ensure services/systems are highly stable and performant and meet the expectations of internal and external customers and users.

Build and improve services to be scalable and highly reliable. Help deliver and improve engineering systems and practices to deliver services in 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) within a secure facility. 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.

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 Clearance with access to Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) based on a Single Scope Background Investigation (SSBI) with Polygraph.

Failure to maintain or obtain the appropriate U.S. Government 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 You will be asked to provide clearance verification information prior to an offer of employment. Understanding and experience with CI/CD concepts and Git.

2+ years of Windows / Linux hands on system experiences Experience debugging issues ranging from the operating system, application, and all the way to the cloud. Experienced in solving operational issues in a scalable way. Ability to thrive with the ambiguity associated with working in a fast-paced and changing environment. Support a 24x7 live site support model for the services the team owns.

Experience with Kubernetes, and the Kubernetes satellite technologies Some experience with building and supporting large-scale production services, including logging, monitoring, alerting, and measuring reliability and availability. Proficient in at least one scripting language but knows when to move solutions into managed code. Experiece with Azure DevOps and GitHub tooling.

Demonstrated communication skills and ability to collaborate in a multi-disciplinary team consisting of Software Engineers, Program Managers, Security Researchers, and Data Scientists.

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

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