Microsoft

Software Engineer

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2 days ago
Bengaluru, IndiaMid Level

Responsibilities

  • Design and develop reusable Azure Policy definitions, policy initiatives, automation, and remediation workflows across managed tenants and subscriptions.
  • Assess security, privacy, AI governance, and internal control requirements; identify gaps; and lead architecture, implementation, validation, and rollout.
  • Embed secure defaults, configuration standards, monitoring, and automated remediation into provisioning and lifecycle processes.
  • Establish engineering standards for design, code review, testing, releases, documentation, and operational readiness.
  • Use telemetry and control-effectiveness measures to identify failures, reduce false positives, and accelerate remediation.
  • Build solutions for tenant and subscription provisioning, renewal, decommissioning, ownership hygiene, resource governance, allowance management, and cost optimization.
  • Replace manual processes with durable services, APIs, pipelines, and appropriate AI-enabled engineering approaches.
  • Lead complex incidents and escalations, perform root-cause analysis, and drive corrective and preventive actions.
  • Partner with service owners, security and privacy teams, platform engineering, finance, support, and business stakeholders.
  • Mentor engineers and communicate technical and risk tradeoffs while influencing decisions without direct authority.

Requirements

  • At least 3 years of professional software engineering experience using general-purpose languages, scripting languages, or infrastructure-as-code technologies; alternatively, a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field plus 1+ years of relevant experience, or equivalent experience.
  • Experience leading AI-powered transformation initiatives involving agentic workflows, automation, and data-driven solutions at enterprise scale.
  • Familiarity with AI governance, risk management, and responsible AI practices.
  • Experience designing, developing, testing, deploying, and supporting production-quality cloud services, automation, or platform engineering solutions.
  • Hands-on Microsoft Azure experience, including Azure Policy, Azure Resource Manager, identity and access management, monitoring, or subscription and tenant governance.
  • Understanding of secure software development, cloud security controls, least privilege, configuration management, and automated compliance.
  • Ability to diagnose complex technical issues, use telemetry to guide decisions, and lead remediation across multiple teams.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills for explaining technical and risk tradeoffs to engineering and business audiences.
  • Preferred experience with C#, Python, PowerShell, TypeScript, Azure Functions, Azure DevOps, GitHub pipelines, or equivalent technologies.
  • Preferred experience building Azure Policy definitions and initiatives, policy-as-code solutions, automated remediation, compliance dashboards, or control-evidence pipelines.
  • Preferred knowledge of Azure landing zones, management groups, subscriptions, Entra ID, role-based access control, resource lifecycle management, and cloud cost optimization.
  • Preferred enterprise-scale service operations experience, including incident response, root-cause analysis, health service monitoring, and reliability improvement.
  • Preferred experience applying AI or machine learning to engineering productivity, operations, detection, or remediation.
  • Relevant Azure, security, DevOps, or cloud architecture certification is preferred.

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10,000+ employees

Microsoft develops operating systems, productivity software, cloud services, developer tools, and consumer devices for individuals, enterprises, and governments. Its main products include Windows, Microsoft 365, Azure, Visual Studio/GitHub, Xbox, and LinkedIn; revenue comes from software subscriptions and licenses, cloud consumption, hardware sales, and advertising. Founded in 1975 and headquartered in Redmond, Washington, Microsoft is a public company traded on Nasdaq.

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