Software Engineer
Microsoft · Posted Oct 12
Software, cloud computing, artificial intelligence, and hardware services
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About the role
The Azure Managed Environment team provides governed Azure tenants and subscriptions for customer demonstrations, proofs of concept, support engineering, and other non-production scenarios, applying centralized policy, monitoring, automated remediation, lifecycle governance, and cost controls to reduce production-tenant exposure and preserve delivery agility. This Software Engineer role is a hands-on individual contributor position that designs, builds, and operates automated control solutions enforcing security and governance requirements, translating SFI, Azure Tenant Baseline, Entra, privacy, and business requirements into scalable policies, automations, telemetry, and remediation workflows while partnering with security architects, service owners, support teams, and business stakeholders.
What you will do
- Engineer cloud controls: Design and develop reusable Azure Policy definitions, policy initiatives, automation, and remediation workflows that enforce security and governance requirements across managed tenants and subscriptions.
- Lead control implementation: Assess new SFI, Azure Tenant Baseline, Entra, privacy, and internal control requirements; determine affected resources and control gaps; and lead architecture, implementation, validation, and rollout.
- Build compliance by design: Embed secure defaults, configuration standards, monitoring, and automated remediation into provisioning and lifecycle processes so compliance is consistent and scalable.
- Own engineering quality: Establish design standards, code-review practices, testing, release controls, documentation, and operational readiness for cloud-control solutions.
- Improve detection and remediation: Use telemetry, execution logs, and control-effectiveness measures to identify failures, tune enforcement, reduce false positives, and accelerate risk reduction.
- Advance lifecycle and cost governance: Engineer solutions for tenant and subscription provisioning, renewal, decommissioning, ownership hygiene, resource governance, allowance management, and cost optimization.
- Automate repeatable operations: Replace manual processes and one-off scripts with durable services, APIs, pipelines, and AI-enabled engineering approaches where appropriate.
- Support operational resilience: Provide engineering leadership during complex incidents and escalations, perform root-cause analysis, and drive corrective and preventive actions.
- Partner across functions: Work with service owners, security and privacy teams, platform engineering, finance, support, and business stakeholders to align requirements, priorities, and delivery plans.
- Provide technical leadership: Mentor engineers, communicate design and risk tradeoffs clearly, and influence decisions without relying on direct authority.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- 3+ years of professional software engineering experience using one or more general-purpose languages, scripting languages, or infrastructure-as-code technologies; OR a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field and 1+ years of relevant experience; OR equivalent experience.
- Experience leading AI-powered transformation initiatives, including the implementation of agentic workflows, automation, and data-driven solutions at enterprise scale.
- Familiarity with AI governance, risk management, and responsible AI practices, with the ability to translate emerging AI capabilities into measurable business value.
- Experience designing, developing, testing, deploying, and supporting production-quality cloud services, automation, or platform engineering solutions.
- Hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure, 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 drive decisions, and lead remediation across multiple teams.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to explain technical and risk tradeoffs to engineering and business audiences.
Preferred qualifications
- Experience with C#, Python, PowerShell, TypeScript, Azure Functions, Azure DevOps or GitHub pipelines, or equivalent technologies.
- Experience building Azure Policy definitions and initiatives, policy-as-code solutions, automated remediation, compliance dashboards, or control-evidence pipelines.
- Knowledge of Azure landing zones, management groups, subscriptions, Entra ID, role-based access control, resource lifecycle management, and cloud cost optimization.
- Experience operating services at enterprise scale, including incident response, root-cause analysis, health service monitoring, and reliability improvement.
- Experience applying AI or machine learning capabilities to engineering productivity, operations, detection, or remediation.
- Relevant Azure, security, DevOps, or cloud architecture certification.
Benefits and support
- Compensation and benefits are detailed in the job posting
About Microsoft
Microsoft Corporation is a multinational technology company that develops, licenses, and supports a wide range of software products, services, and hardware devices. Best known for its Windows operating systems, Microsoft 365 productivity suite, and Xbox gaming consoles, the company has expanded heavily into enterprise cloud computing via Azure and advanced artificial intelligence solutions. As one of the world's most valuable public enterprises, it empowers individuals and businesses globally through innovative digital transformation.
- Industry
- Software
- Company size
- 228,000+ employees
- Founded
- April 4, 1975
- Location
- Redmond, Washington, USA
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Leadership
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Chief Financial Officer
Vice Chair and President
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