Software Engineer II / Senior Engineer – Entra Application Governance

About the role

The Entra Application Governance team builds core capabilities that help enterprises discover, manage, govern, and secure application identities at scale, including AI‑powered applications, agents, and non‑human identities. You will work at the intersection of cloud‑scale engineering, identity, security, and AI to define how enterprises securely adopt the next generation of intelligent software.

Key responsibilities

• Design, implement, and evolve platform services that enable customers to understand, govern, and secure permissions across applications, AI workloads, and automated systems.
• Own end‑to‑end delivery of features, from design and implementation to testing, rollout, monitoring, and live‑site reliability.
• Translate security, compliance, and enterprise governance requirements into scalable, maintainable technical solutions.
• Drive engineering quality through design reviews, code reviews, and operational best practices.
• Identify and mitigate security risks, scalability bottlenecks, and reliability gaps in governance‑critical systems.
• Contribute to operational excellence via health metrics, alerting, incident response, root‑cause analysis, and long‑term fixes.
• Collaborate closely with product managers, partner teams, and adjacent Entra services to deliver cohesive customer experiences.
• Mentor and support other engineers, raising the overall engineering bar through knowledge sharing and technical leadership.

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field, or equivalent engineering experience.
• Professional software engineering experience building and operating production systems.
• Strong coding skills in C#, Java, or a comparable object‑oriented language.
• Experience designing and operating cloud‑based services and distributed systems.
• Demonstrated understanding of system design, performance, reliability, and security.
• Ability to independently own complex problem areas and deliver results with minimal oversight.
• Good collaboration and communication skills.

Required skills

• C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Python
• RESTful APIs and microservices
• Cloud platforms and distributed systems
• OAuth, OpenID Connect, SAML, SCIM, JWT