Software Engineer

Overview   Security represents the most critical priorities for our customers in a world awash in digital threats, regulatory scrutiny, and estate complexity. Microsoft Security aspires to make the world a safer place for all. We want to reshape security and empower every user, customer, and developer with a security cloud that protects them with end to end, simplified solutions. The Microsoft Security 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.     HM Team Description:   The Entra Application Governance team builds the core capabilities that help enterprises discover, manage, govern, and secure application identities at scale. As organizations increasingly adopt AI-powered applications, agents, and non-human identities, our mission is expanding to help customers securely govern and manage the next generation of software.     We are building the security and governance foundations for applications, AI agents, and machine identities, helping enterprises apply least-privilege access, visibility, and policy controls across increasingly complex cloud environments. This includes emerging governance challenges around autonomous software, non-human identities, and AI-driven access patterns.     You will own and deliver critical platform capabilities that directly impact customer security, compliance, and operational efficiency. You will work at the intersection of cloud-scale engineering, identity, security, and AI, helping define how enterprises securely adopt the next generation of intelligent software. This role requires strong engineering fundamentals, sound judgment in security-sensitive domains, and the ability to drive work independently across complex systems.     Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

Develop, test, debug, and maintain software components and services under the guidance of experienced engineers.   Implement features, fix bugs, and improve service quality, reliability, and performance.   Participate in code reviews and apply engineering best practices.   Learn and follow secure software development principles and operational procedures.   Assist with monitoring, troubleshooting, and resolving production issues.   Work closely with teammates to understand requirements and deliver solutions.   Contribute to documentation, testing, and automation efforts.   Continuously build technical skills in cloud computing, security, identity, and distributed systems.

BS in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.  Experience with software development through internships, academic projects, open-source contributions, or industry experience.  Programming experience in C#, Java, or a comparable object-oriented language.  Understanding of software engineering fundamentals, including data structures, algorithms, and testing.  Basic knowledge of cloud services and distributed systems concepts is a plus.  Strong learning agility, problem-solving skills, and attention to quality.  Good collaboration and communication skills.  Other Requirements Interest in identity, cloud security, governance, or