Software Engineer II - CTJ - Top Secret

Microsoft is a leading technology company focused on empowering users and organizations through innovative solutions. The Software Engineer II role involves building and delivering scalable cloud security solutions, collaborating with engineering teams to ensure high stability and performance of services in complex environments.

Responsibilities:

• 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

Requirements:

• 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
• Candidates must be able to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role
• Candidates must have an active TS and be willing to upgrade to TS/SCI (with polygraph) or have an active TS/SCI and be willing to upgrade to TS/SCI (with polygraph)
• This role will require candidates to maintain the TS/SCI (with polygraph) clearance
• Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role
• Failure to maintain or obtain the appropriate clearance and/or customer screening requirements may result in employment action up to and including termination
• 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
• This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter
• 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
• Experience 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