# Software Engineer II- (GCC‑High/DoD)- CTJ- Secret

**Company**: Microsoft
**Location**: Reston, Washington
**Experience**: mid
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: USD $102,100 – $202,200 per year
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology
**Ticker**: MSFT
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2283

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## Description

Microsoft Viva Insights empowers organisations to thrive in the era of AI-powered work. As part of Microsoft 365 Copilot, it delivers privacy-protected, data-driven insights through a unified experience that helps organisations maximise the impact of their workforce by understanding and accelerating the adoption of Copilot and Agents.

We are looking for a Backend Software Engineer II to help deliver intuitive, AI-powered experiences that enable customers to understand work patterns, optimise collaboration, and realise potential by unlocking the full value of Microsoft Copilot.

**Responsibilities**

- Design, implement, test, deploy, and operate large-scale, distributed backend systems that power AI-driven insights and analytics for Microsoft 365 Copilot and Viva Insights.

- Apply generative AI and ML techniques to deliver intelligent, personalised experiences that help customers understand and accelerate their AI transformation.

- Act as an embedded engineer for government cloud environments (GCC-High / DoD), executing onboarding, deployments, troubleshooting, and operational activities.

- Build, manage, and maintain Azure infrastructure across environments, including compute, networking, storage, identity, certificates, and service dependencies.

- Collaborate across disciplines to define technical requirements, design robust APIs, and unblock cross-service dependencies.

- Drive engineering excellence and service reliability through strong design, testing, observability, proactive monitoring, and deep diagnostics.

- Contribute to team culture by mentoring peers, sharing knowledge, and fostering an inclusive, growth-oriented environment.

- Continuously learn and adapt to new technologies, patterns, and best practices in AI, distributed systems, and cloud-native development.

**Qualifications**

- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 2+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python.

- OR equivalent experience.

- 3+ years of hands-on software design and coding experience.

- Experience applying AI/ML techniques or working with generative AI systems in production environments.

- Familiarity with modern version control systems like Git and agile development methodologies.

- Hands-on experience with Azure cloud services, including compute, networking, storage, identity, and resource governance.

- Experience designing and maintaining infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD pipelines.

- Experience supporting live-site operations, including incident triage, root cause analysis, and driving issues to resolution.

**Security Clearance Requirements**

- Candidates must be able to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements.

- The successful candidate must have an active U.S. Government Secret Security Clearance.

**Preferred Qualifications**

- Demonstrated experience designing and implementing large-scale distributed systems or cloud platforms.

- Solid collaboration and communication skills to work effectively across teams and disciplines.

- Prior experience with GCC, GCC-High, DoD clouds or environments with strict compliance, auditing, or access controls.

- Familiarity with EV2 or similar large-scale deployment orchestration systems.

## Skills

### Required
- C
- C++
- C#
- Java
- JavaScript
- Python
- Azure
- AI
- ML
- Git
- Agile

### Nice to have
- large-scale distributed systems
- cloud platforms
- GCC
- GCC-High
- DoD clouds
- EV2

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