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Software Engineer II - CTJ - Poly

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

Skills & highlights for this role

  • Top Secret clearance with SCI
  • polygraph
  • U.S. citizenship
  • C
  • C++
  • C#
  • Java
  • Python
  • telemetry pipelines
  • monitoring tools

About the role

You participate in onboarding, code/design reviews, and regular meetings with the engineering teams that develop and manage those products. You independently develop code or scripts that automate the performance of repetitive and easily scalable operations processes. You design, develop, and maintain telemetry pipelines and monitoring tools that detail operations metrics.

You develop, test, troubleshoot, and implement changes to optimize code and improve products. You respond to incidents during regular on-call rotations. 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 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 AND 3+ years technical engineering experience with 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 5+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience.

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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