Software Engineer - CTJ - Poly

Summary: Microsoft is a leading technology company focused on empowering every person and organization on the planet. They are seeking a Software Engineer for the M365 Air Gapped Clouds team to build internal tools and develop software solutions that enhance the efficiency of M365 operations in government environments. Responsibilities: - With guidance, learns how and creates and implements code for a product, service, or feature reusing code as applicable. Writes and learns to create code that is extensible and maintainable. Learns about and applies diagnosability, reliability, and maintainability, and understands when the code is ready to be shared and delivered. Applies coding patterns and best practices to write code (e.g., leveraging state-of-the-art generative artificial intelligence [GenAI], approaches to source code organization, naming conventions) - Acts as a designated responsible individual (DRI) in monitoring a system/product feature/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions for simple problems, and recommends actions to restore system/product/service by following the playbook. Escalates more complex problems to other DRIs as to status. Responds within service level agreement (SLA) timeframe. Escalates issues to appropriate owners - Contributes to operations of live site service with direct supervision, following security best practices when responding quickly to mitigate issues while using the minimum required permissions to do so that arise on a rotational, on-call basis. Identifies solutions and mitigations to simple issues impacting performance or functionality of live site services and escalates appropriately - Supports the identification of dependencies, and their incorporation into the development of design documents for a product feature with oversight. Learns and helps to actively identify other teams and technologies to leverage, how they interact, and where their own system or team can support others - Reviews current developments and proactively seeks new knowledge that will improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while also driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale. Develops collateral materials for learning and literary sessions used to raise awareness on relevant engineering design principles (e.g., security, testability, performance, scalability, accessibility, product knowledge), with some oversight - Contributes in partnership with appropriate internal stakeholders (e.g., product manager, privacy/security subject matter expert, technical lead) to understand customer/user requirements for a feature. Contributes to incorporating customer insights into solution fixes with oversight from more experienced peers Required Qualifications: - 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 OR equivalent experience - Candidates must be able to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role - 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 - Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role - 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 - 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 - This position requires verification of U.S. citizenship due to citizenship-based legal restrictions - Citizenship will be verified via a valid passport, or other approved documents, or verified US government Clearance Preferred Qualifications: - Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 1+ year(s) technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR 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 equivalent experience Required Skills: C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Python, Distributed Systems, Scalable Services, Software Development Benefits: Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation., Find additional benefits and pay information here: