Software Engineer - CTJ - Poly at Microsoft
Redmond, WA
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Jul 28, 2026
Redmond, WA
Jul 29, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
This role sits within a Commerce Platforms team supporting cloud-based distributed systems, with a focus on operational reliability, automation, and incident response. Day-to-day work involves writing scripts to resolve and prevent service issues, leveraging telemetry data to drive improvements, and partnering with engineering teams on root cause analyses. The position suits an early-career candidate with foundational cloud, scripting, and monitoring exposure, and requires an active TS/SCI clearance with polygraph.
Junior level · Bachelor's required · TS/SCI clearance · Full-time
“or” means any one of them counts — you don't need all of them.
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How this req sits in the market our data
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $101,310 (middle half $79,725–$129,425).
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 29, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (7)
The coding language requirement (C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python) is listed as a hard gate in the requirements section; any one of these satisfies it — alternatives are captured accordingly.
Azure, PowerShell/Python scripting, monitoring/telemetry tools, and CI/CD are all framed as 'exposure to', 'familiarity with', or 'introductory knowledge of', placing them in the preferred/nice-to-have tier despite appearing in what reads as a qualifications block.
The degree requirement states 'Bachelor's Degree… OR equivalent experience', but the TS/SCI with polygraph clearance is an unconditional hard gate with no equivalent path.
No work location is specified in the posting; given the TS/SCI + polygraph requirement and US government customer context, the role is almost certainly on-site at a cleared facility, but the specific metro cannot be determined from the text.
The role blends SRE/operations work (incident response, telemetry, distributed systems reliability) with scripting/automation development, making the SOC classification genuinely ambiguous between 15-1244 (systems administration/operations) and 15-1252 (software developers). The operational framing and emphasis on monitoring, root cause analysis, and service management tips the balance toward 15-1244, but the scripting and automation development emphasis is a real signal for 15-1252.
The experience framing throughout ('academic, internship, or early professional', 'coursework, labs, internships, or personal projects', 'introductory knowledge') clearly targets an entry-level or early-career candidate, supporting a Junior seniority classification despite the TS/SCI requirement.
Requires a TS/SCI clearance — the cleared population is a small fraction of this occupation, so the real candidate pool is materially smaller than the estimate below, which does not model clearance.
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