Job Description
Senior Software Engineer - CTJ - Poly
Microsoft • Ashland, KY, United States • via LinkedIn
11 hours ago
Full–time
Apply on LinkedIn
Qualifications
Passionate about quality design and development practices
Enjoys new technological challenges and is motivated to solve them
Excited about making better software and continuously improving the development, integration, and deployment processes
Smart, highly motivated, self-starter who thrives in a bottoms-up, fast-paced, highly technical environment
Effective collaborator, experienced in creating technical partnerships across teams
Unwavering passion for meeting customer demands and delivering a dial tone service
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
OR equivalent experience
Security Clearance Requirements: 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
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
Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter
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
Benefits
Software Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $117,200 - $22+,200 per year
There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $153,600 - $250,200 per year
Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation
Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay
Responsibilities
As a Software Engineer, you will identify and deliver software improvements using your expertise in software development, complexity analysis, and scalable system design
Collaboration skills will be required to work closely with other engineering teams to ensure services/systems are highly stable and performant, meeting the expectations of our government customers and users.
Considers and drives comprehensive application of automation within production and deployment of a product
Runs code in simulated or other non-production environments to confirm functionality and error-free runtime for products
Defines and develops standardized, repeatable, scalable solutions to guarantee quality
Maintains communication with key partners across the Microsoft ecosystem of engineers
Acts as a key contact for leadership to ensure alignment with partners' expectations
Considers partner teams across own organization and their end goals for products to drive and achieve desirable user experiences and fitting dynamic needs of partners/customers through product development
Leads discussions for the architecture of products/solutions and creates proposals for architecture by testing design hypotheses and helping to refine code plans
Provides reactions, proposed solutions, and inputs to architects
Partially owns solutions for architecting of solutions, with minimal technical oversight
Develops design documents for designs or User Stories, and determines the technology that will be leveraged and how it will interact
Shares learnings and identified solutions from investigations with the team and owns for some design decisions
Assures system architecture meets security and compliance requirements and expectations
Reviews the code of a product to assure it meets the team's and Microsoft's quality standards, is reliable and accurate, and is appropriate for the scale of the product/solution area
Applies feedback to current and future iterations
Participates in code reviews to ensure coding standards are followed
Considers diagnosability, reliability, and maintainability when reviewing code, and understands when code is ready to be shared or delivered
Applies and screens for coding patterns and best practices in reviews, and provides feedback on code to drive adherence to best practices
Drives creation and conducting of experimentation to determine the effectiveness of changes, monitors developments for prototyping and testing products, and interprets results from experimentation
Drives efforts to collect, classify, and analyze data on a range of metrics (e.g., health of the system, where bugs might be occurring)
Drives the refinement of products through data analytics, and makes informed decisions in engineering products through data integration
Maintains operations of live service as issues arise on a rotational, on-call basis
Implements solutions and mitigations to more complex issues impacting performance or functionality of Live Site service and escalates as necessary
Reviews and writes issues postmortem and shares insights with the team
Embody our Culture & Values
Job description
Do you have a passion for high scale services and working with some of Microsoft’s most critical customers? We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer with the right mix of software development, on-line services experience and passion for quality to envision, design, and deliver Office 365 government cloud service offerings.
Office 365 is at the center of Microsoft’s cloud first, devices first strategy as it brings together cloud versions of our most trusted communication and collaboration products like Exchange, SharePoint, Teams with our cross-platform desktop suites and mobile apps. The Office 365 Enterprise Cloud team works with Microsoft’s largest enterprise and government customers to deliver features that meet their specific needs and enable cloud adoption. As one would expect, our customers have the highest expectations for feature quality, security, reliability, availability, and performance.
The engineering team provides leadership, direction and accountability for application architecture, system design, and end-to-end implementation. As a Software Engineer, you will identify and deliver software improvements using your expertise in software development, complexity analysis, and scalable system design. Collaboration skills will be required to work closely with other engineering teams to ensure services/systems are highly stable and performant, meeting the expectations of our government customers and users.
At Microsoft, we can offer you a team, exciting challenges, and a fun place to work. The work environment empowers you to have a positive impact on millions of end users.
The Right Candidate For This Job (is)
• Passionate about quality design and development practices.
• Enjoys new technological challenges and is motivated to solve them.
• Excited about making better software and continuously improving the development, integration, and deployment processes.
• Smart, highly motivated, self-starter who thrives in a bottoms-up, fast-paced, highly technical environment.
• Effective collaborator, experienced in creating technical partnerships across teams.
• Unwavering passion for meeting customer demands and delivering a dial tone service.
Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.
Responsibilities
• Considers and drives comprehensive application of automation within production and deployment of a product. Runs code in simulated or other non-production environments to confirm functionality and error-free runtime for products. Defines and develops standardized, repeatable, scalable solutions to guarantee quality.
• Maintains communication with key partners across the Microsoft ecosystem of engineers. Acts as a key contact for leadership to ensure alignment with partners' expectations. Considers partner teams across own organization and their end goals for products to drive and achieve desirable user experiences and fitting dynamic needs of partners/customers through product development.
• Leads discussions for the architecture of products/solutions and creates proposals for architecture by testing design hypotheses and helping to refine code plans. Provides reactions, proposed solutions, and inputs to architects. Partially owns solutions for architecting of solutions, with minimal technical oversight. Develops design documents for designs or User Stories, and determines the technology that will be leveraged and how it will interact. Shares learnings and identified solutions from investigations with the team and owns for some design decisions. Assures system architecture meets security and compliance requirements and expectations.
• Reviews the code of a product to assure it meets the team's and Microsoft's quality standards, is reliable and accurate, and is appropriate for the scale of the product/solution area. Applies feedback to current and future iterations. Participates in code reviews to ensure coding standards are followed. Considers diagnosability, reliability, and maintainability when reviewing code, and understands when code is ready to be shared or delivered. Applies and screens for coding patterns and best practices in reviews, and provides feedback on code to drive adherence to best practices.
• Drives creation and conducting of experimentation to determine the effectiveness of changes, monitors developments for prototyping and testing products, and interprets results from experimentation.
• Drives efforts to collect, classify, and analyze data on a range of metrics (e.g., health of the system, where bugs might be occurring). Drives the refinement of products through data analytics, and makes informed decisions in engineering products through data integration.
• Maintains operations of live service as issues arise on a rotational, on-call basis. Implements solutions and mitigations to more complex issues impacting performance or functionality of Live Site service and escalates as necessary. Reviews and writes issues postmortem and shares insights with the team.
Embody our Culture & Values
Qualifications
Required Qualifications:
• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
• OR equivalent experience.
Other Qualifications
• Security Clearance Requirements: Candidates must be able to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. 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. 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.
• 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.
• Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
• 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
Preferred Qualifications
• Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ 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 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
• OR equivalent experience.
• Experience with the Microsoft cloud and/or stack including O365, Azure, Windows or other Microsoft software/services
• Experience designing, building, shipping, and debugging production quality software services
• Demonstrated ability to debug, fix, and optimize code
• Great design and problem-solving skills, with a bias for quality and engineering excellence
• Communications skills, both verbal and written
Software Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $117,200 - $22+,200 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $153,600 - $250,200 per year.
Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay
Microsoft will accept applications for the role until October 7, 2026
#M365CORE
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, *** (including pregnancy), ****** orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.
Microsoft • Ashland, KY, United States • via LinkedIn
11 hours ago
Full–time
Apply on LinkedIn
Qualifications
Passionate about quality design and development practices
Enjoys new technological challenges and is motivated to solve them
Excited about making better software and continuously improving the development, integration, and deployment processes
Smart, highly motivated, self-starter who thrives in a bottoms-up, fast-paced, highly technical environment
Effective collaborator, experienced in creating technical partnerships across teams
Unwavering passion for meeting customer demands and delivering a dial tone service
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
OR equivalent experience
Security Clearance Requirements: 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
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
Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter
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
Benefits
Software Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $117,200 - $22+,200 per year
There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $153,600 - $250,200 per year
Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation
Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay
Responsibilities
As a Software Engineer, you will identify and deliver software improvements using your expertise in software development, complexity analysis, and scalable system design
Collaboration skills will be required to work closely with other engineering teams to ensure services/systems are highly stable and performant, meeting the expectations of our government customers and users.
Considers and drives comprehensive application of automation within production and deployment of a product
Runs code in simulated or other non-production environments to confirm functionality and error-free runtime for products
Defines and develops standardized, repeatable, scalable solutions to guarantee quality
Maintains communication with key partners across the Microsoft ecosystem of engineers
Acts as a key contact for leadership to ensure alignment with partners' expectations
Considers partner teams across own organization and their end goals for products to drive and achieve desirable user experiences and fitting dynamic needs of partners/customers through product development
Leads discussions for the architecture of products/solutions and creates proposals for architecture by testing design hypotheses and helping to refine code plans
Provides reactions, proposed solutions, and inputs to architects
Partially owns solutions for architecting of solutions, with minimal technical oversight
Develops design documents for designs or User Stories, and determines the technology that will be leveraged and how it will interact
Shares learnings and identified solutions from investigations with the team and owns for some design decisions
Assures system architecture meets security and compliance requirements and expectations
Reviews the code of a product to assure it meets the team's and Microsoft's quality standards, is reliable and accurate, and is appropriate for the scale of the product/solution area
Applies feedback to current and future iterations
Participates in code reviews to ensure coding standards are followed
Considers diagnosability, reliability, and maintainability when reviewing code, and understands when code is ready to be shared or delivered
Applies and screens for coding patterns and best practices in reviews, and provides feedback on code to drive adherence to best practices
Drives creation and conducting of experimentation to determine the effectiveness of changes, monitors developments for prototyping and testing products, and interprets results from experimentation
Drives efforts to collect, classify, and analyze data on a range of metrics (e.g., health of the system, where bugs might be occurring)
Drives the refinement of products through data analytics, and makes informed decisions in engineering products through data integration
Maintains operations of live service as issues arise on a rotational, on-call basis
Implements solutions and mitigations to more complex issues impacting performance or functionality of Live Site service and escalates as necessary
Reviews and writes issues postmortem and shares insights with the team
Embody our Culture & Values
Job description
Do you have a passion for high scale services and working with some of Microsoft’s most critical customers? We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer with the right mix of software development, on-line services experience and passion for quality to envision, design, and deliver Office 365 government cloud service offerings.
Office 365 is at the center of Microsoft’s cloud first, devices first strategy as it brings together cloud versions of our most trusted communication and collaboration products like Exchange, SharePoint, Teams with our cross-platform desktop suites and mobile apps. The Office 365 Enterprise Cloud team works with Microsoft’s largest enterprise and government customers to deliver features that meet their specific needs and enable cloud adoption. As one would expect, our customers have the highest expectations for feature quality, security, reliability, availability, and performance.
The engineering team provides leadership, direction and accountability for application architecture, system design, and end-to-end implementation. As a Software Engineer, you will identify and deliver software improvements using your expertise in software development, complexity analysis, and scalable system design. Collaboration skills will be required to work closely with other engineering teams to ensure services/systems are highly stable and performant, meeting the expectations of our government customers and users.
At Microsoft, we can offer you a team, exciting challenges, and a fun place to work. The work environment empowers you to have a positive impact on millions of end users.
The Right Candidate For This Job (is)
• Passionate about quality design and development practices.
• Enjoys new technological challenges and is motivated to solve them.
• Excited about making better software and continuously improving the development, integration, and deployment processes.
• Smart, highly motivated, self-starter who thrives in a bottoms-up, fast-paced, highly technical environment.
• Effective collaborator, experienced in creating technical partnerships across teams.
• Unwavering passion for meeting customer demands and delivering a dial tone service.
Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.
Responsibilities
• Considers and drives comprehensive application of automation within production and deployment of a product. Runs code in simulated or other non-production environments to confirm functionality and error-free runtime for products. Defines and develops standardized, repeatable, scalable solutions to guarantee quality.
• Maintains communication with key partners across the Microsoft ecosystem of engineers. Acts as a key contact for leadership to ensure alignment with partners' expectations. Considers partner teams across own organization and their end goals for products to drive and achieve desirable user experiences and fitting dynamic needs of partners/customers through product development.
• Leads discussions for the architecture of products/solutions and creates proposals for architecture by testing design hypotheses and helping to refine code plans. Provides reactions, proposed solutions, and inputs to architects. Partially owns solutions for architecting of solutions, with minimal technical oversight. Develops design documents for designs or User Stories, and determines the technology that will be leveraged and how it will interact. Shares learnings and identified solutions from investigations with the team and owns for some design decisions. Assures system architecture meets security and compliance requirements and expectations.
• Reviews the code of a product to assure it meets the team's and Microsoft's quality standards, is reliable and accurate, and is appropriate for the scale of the product/solution area. Applies feedback to current and future iterations. Participates in code reviews to ensure coding standards are followed. Considers diagnosability, reliability, and maintainability when reviewing code, and understands when code is ready to be shared or delivered. Applies and screens for coding patterns and best practices in reviews, and provides feedback on code to drive adherence to best practices.
• Drives creation and conducting of experimentation to determine the effectiveness of changes, monitors developments for prototyping and testing products, and interprets results from experimentation.
• Drives efforts to collect, classify, and analyze data on a range of metrics (e.g., health of the system, where bugs might be occurring). Drives the refinement of products through data analytics, and makes informed decisions in engineering products through data integration.
• Maintains operations of live service as issues arise on a rotational, on-call basis. Implements solutions and mitigations to more complex issues impacting performance or functionality of Live Site service and escalates as necessary. Reviews and writes issues postmortem and shares insights with the team.
Embody our Culture & Values
Qualifications
Required Qualifications:
• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
• OR equivalent experience.
Other Qualifications
• Security Clearance Requirements: Candidates must be able to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. 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. 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.
• 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.
• Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
• 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
Preferred Qualifications
• Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ 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 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
• OR equivalent experience.
• Experience with the Microsoft cloud and/or stack including O365, Azure, Windows or other Microsoft software/services
• Experience designing, building, shipping, and debugging production quality software services
• Demonstrated ability to debug, fix, and optimize code
• Great design and problem-solving skills, with a bias for quality and engineering excellence
• Communications skills, both verbal and written
Software Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $117,200 - $22+,200 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $153,600 - $250,200 per year.
Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay
Microsoft will accept applications for the role until October 7, 2026
#M365CORE
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, *** (including pregnancy), ****** orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.
💡 Quick Summary
Seeking a career-building opportunity? The Senior software Engineer |CTJ | poly position is now open for candidates interested in the IT Engineer & Developer Jobs sector. This role in Ashland offers a professional environment and growth potential.
Requirement Snapshot: Candidates should possess basic communication skills, a proactive attitude, and the ability to work in a team. Experience in IT Engineer & Developer Jobs is a plus.
