Software Engineer II

Actively Reviewing the Applications

Microsoft

India, Karnataka, Bengaluru Full-Time On-site INR 1–4 LPA

Posted 2 days ago • Apply by June 16, 2026

Job Description

Overview

The Cloud & AI organization accelerates Microsoft’s mission and bold ambitions to ensure that our company and industry is securing digital technology platforms, devices, and clouds in our customers’ heterogeneous environments, as well as ensuring the security of our own internal estate. Our culture is centered on embracing a growth mindset, a theme of inspiring excellence, and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day. In doing so, we create life-changing innovations that impact billions of lives around the world. Microsoft is one of the largest enterprise service companies in the world.

The Identity & Access Management (IAM) Protect team within the CISO organization is seeking a motivated Security Software Engineer to join our Identity Operations team.

This role focuses on analyzing incident and ticket trends, building secure, scalable automation solutions, and providing technical leadership to the team.

You will work closely with Engineering & Product teams to design and deliver security‑compliant automation using Azure services, scripting, and AI‑assisted tooling.

Responsibilities

Contribute to Design, develop, test, and maintain cloud‑based applications and services, with a strong preference for Microsoft Azure.
Implement secure, reliable, and scalable solutions following Microsoft engineering, security, and compliance standards.
Build automation services using but not limited to Azure Functions, Azure Logic Apps, and PowerShell‑based scripting to reduce manual effort and improve operational efficiency.
Contribute to improving team processes, documentation, and engineering quality.
Act as Designated Responsible Individual (DRI), working on call to monitor system/product/service for degradation.
Gain knowledge by contributing to the Security Operations Engineering tickets as and when needed and also support them when needed.
Develop new AI-based solutions with potential to helps customers and also that helps prevent tickets.

Qualifications

4+ years of professional software development experience.
Strong experience in cloud‑based development, preferably on Microsoft Azure.
Monitoring / Alerting / Automation solutions for Live Site.
Hands‑on experience with:

Azure Functions
Azure Logic Apps
PowerShell scripting for automation
Azure CLI
Entra ID

Solid understanding of software engineering fundamentals: data structures, debugging, testing, and maintainable code.
Ability to work effectively as a team player in a collaborative engineering environment.

Preferred Qualification

Experience/familiarity with application and system monitoring systems
Experience in Identity & Access Management domain.
Experience with Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS).
Working on knowledge of Entra ID, Conditional Access, Azure Policies, PIM
Experience using Federated Identity Credentials (FIC) or modern cloud identity patterns.
Background in automation‑focused engineering (operational automation, CI/CD, reliability improvements).
Exposure to AI‑assisted development or automation, including intelligent workflows or chat‑based tooling.

This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. 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, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.