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Senior Software Engineer Manager

2026-08-10

India, Karnataka, Bangalore

3 days / week in-office

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.Security represents one of the most critical priorities for our customers in a world awash in digital threats, regulatory scrutiny, and estate complexity. The Office of the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) is accountable for managing and prioritizing cybersecurity risks for Microsoft. This team oversees the company’s overall cyber defense, including the security of Microsoft products and business operations, and collaborates with Engineering teams to advance Secure Future Initiative (SFI) objectives. Security is a core priority for Microsoft, and Identity and Access Management protections are essential to protecting Microsoft at global scale. We are looking for a Senior Engineering Manager to lead a high-performing team of Software Engineers, building the next generation of cloud-native platform services that power Microsoft's tenant management and identity ecosystem. This role combines deep technical leadership with people leadership to deliver highly scalable distributed systems, modern engineering platforms, intelligent automation, and AI-native engineering practices that strengthen Microsoft's security posture while simplifying engineering operations Responsibilities <ul type="disc"><li>Lead, coach, and grow a high-performing team of Software Engineers building secure, cloud-native platform services that power Microsoft's tenant lifecycle management, orchestration, identity governance, and application governance capabilities.</li><li>Define the engineering vision, technical strategy, and architecture for next-generation platform capabilities spanning tenant lifecycle automation, workflow orchestration, and AI-enabled engineering experiences.</li><li>Drive the design and delivery of scalable distributed systems, APIs, platform services, and data-driven solutions that improve security, operational efficiency, and developer productivity.</li><li>Partner across engineering, product, identity, security, data, and infrastructure teams to translate customer needs into integrated platform capabilities while driving cross-organizational execution.</li><li>Champion engineering excellence by fostering AI-native software development, modern engineering practices, secure-by-design principles, high-quality architecture, testing, code quality, and operational readiness.</li><li>Lead platform modernization through cloud-native architectures, API-first design, Infrastructure as Code, automation, CI/CD, observability, and data-driven engineering practices.</li><li>Establish operational excellence by building resilient services with comprehensive monitoring, telemetry, live-site readiness, incident management, and continuous service improvements.</li><li>Drive execution across multiple engineering investments by managing technical priorities, dependencies, resources, and delivery commitments while balancing long-term platform strategy with near-term business objectives.</li><li>Build an inclusive, high-performing engineering culture by attracting, developing, and mentoring exceptional talent while empowering engineers to innovate, collaborate, and grow.</li></ul> Qualifications <ul type="disc"><li>Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years of technical engineering experience designing and building large-scale software systems with coding experience in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++ or C#</li><ul type="circle"><li>OR equivalent experience.</li></ul><li>4+ years of people management experience leading high-performing Software Engineering teams delivering cloud-native applications, distributed systems, platform services, or enterprise engineering platforms.</li><li>Proven experience designing, building, and operating highly available, mission-critical distributed systems or cloud-native platform services at enterprise scale.</li><li>Experience leading engineering organizations through architecture evolution, platform modernization, and delivery of complex technical initiatives using modern engineering practices, including secure software development, CI/CD, automated testing, observability, and operational excellence.</li><li>Demonstrated success driving cross-organizational execution and influencing engineering strategy across multiple teams and stakeholders.</li></ul>Preferred Qualifications<ul type="disc"><li>Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 8+ years of technical engineering experience</li><ul type="circle"><li>OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 10+ years of technical engineering experience</li><li>OR equivalent experience.</li></ul><li>6+ years of people management experience leading multiple engineering teams.</li><li>Experience building enterprise-scale identity, security, governance, tenant management, or platform engineering solutions.</li><li>Experience building and operating cloud-native services using Microsoft Azure, Kubernetes, containers, distributed systems, event-driven architectures, and modern platform engineering practices.</li><li>Experience leading platform modernization initiatives involving workflow orchestration, automation frameworks, platform APIs, infrastructure as code, and developer platforms.</li><li>Experience driving engineering excellence through architecture governance, engineering quality, reliability engineering, telemetry, observability, live-site operations, and continuous improvement.</li><li>Experience leading AI-native engineering transformations by integrating AI-assisted development, intelligent automation, and data-driven engineering practices throughout the software development lifecycle.</li><li>Demonstrated ability to influence long-term technical strategy and build trusted partnerships across engineering, product, identity, security, infrastructure, and executive leadership.</li><li>Proven track record of attracting, developing, and retaining diverse engineering talent while building an inclusive, high-performing engineering culture.</li></ul> This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled. <hr> 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 <a href="https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/accessibility.html">requesting accommodations.</a>

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Principal Software Engineer

2026-08-07

India, Karnataka, Bangalore

4 days / week in-office

Overview <div dir="ltr">Online Advertising is one of the fastest growing multi-billion-dollar business on the Internet today. Search engines, web publishers, major ad networks, and ad exchanges are now serving billions of ad impressions per day. Microsoft is innovating rapidly in this space to grow its share of this market by providing the advertising industry with the state-of-the-art online advertising platform and service. In Microsoft Advertiser Platform team, we are building the marketing solutions for the next generation of e-commerce. As a Principal Software Engineer, you will drive complex missions and multi-team initiatives from conception through production, establish architectural direction, and influence engineering strategy across organizational boundaries. You will partner closely with product management, design, data science, and engineering teams to translate ambiguous customer and business needs into secure, reliable, and maintainable solutions which helps scale the capabilities of the marketers and help them achieve more.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.Starting January 26, 2026, Microsoft AI (MAI) employees who live within a 50-mile commute of a designated Microsoft office in the U.S. or 25-mile commute of a non-U.S., country-specific location are expected to work from the office at least four days per week. This expectation is subject to local law and may vary by jurisdiction. </div> Responsibilities <ul><li>Provide hands-on technical leadership for advertiser-facing products and platforms, raising the engineering bar for technical areas like architecture, quality, security, accessibility, performance, and reliability.</li><li>Define and drive long-term technical strategy and architecture across frontend, service, and data layers.</li><li>Lead complex, cross-team initiatives from requirements and design through implementation, release, measurement, and live-site operations.</li><li>Build and evolve modern user experiences using React, TypeScript, and related web technologies.</li><li>Apply customer insights, experimentation, telemetry, and business results to guide technical decisions and product improvements.</li><li>Identify systemic technical challenges and develop reusable platforms, frameworks, and engineering patterns that benefit multiple teams.</li><li>Drive technical alignment across engineering, product, design, and partner organizations while navigating ambiguity and competing priorities.</li><li>Establish engineering practices for testing, observability, deployment, incident response, and operational excellence.</li><li>Anticipate technical risks, resolve complex design and production issues, and make pragmatic trade-offs that support long-term product health.</li><li>Mentor engineers and technical leaders, strengthen engineering capabilities, and foster an inclusive environment where people can do their best work.</li><li>Contribute to broader organizational strategy and influence investment decisions through technical expertise and customer-focused judgment.</li></ul> Qualifications Required/Minimum Qualifications:<ul><li>Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python.<ul><li>OR equivalent experience.</li></ul></li></ul>Other Requirements: Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings:<ul><li>Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter. </li></ul>Preferred Qualifications:<ul><li>Extensive experience designing, developing, and shipping production software products or services.</li><li>Demonstrated expertise in full-stack development, with substantial experience building complex frontend applications using JavaScript or TypeScript and modern frameworks such as React.</li><li>Experience defining architecture and technical strategy for large-scale products, platforms, or distributed systems.</li><li>Proven ability to lead complex initiatives involving multiple engineering teams and organizational stakeholders.</li><li>Solid software design, coding, debugging, and problem-solving skills.</li><li>Experience delivering secure, reliable, maintainable, and measurable customer-facing solutions.</li><li>Demonstrated ability to operate effectively in ambiguous environments and make sound technical and product trade-offs.</li><li>Effective written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to influence technical and non-technical stakeholders.</li><li>Experience with C#/.NET and the design of scalable APIs, services, and distributed systems.</li><li>Experience with Microsoft Azure or another major cloud-computing platform.</li><li>Experience with experimentation, telemetry, data-informed product development, and customer behavior analysis.</li><li>Experience with CI/CD, automated testing, observability, service health, and live-site operations.</li><li>Experience building products for advertising, commerce, enterprise, or other workflow-intensive domains.</li><li>Demonstrated success mentoring senior engineers and developing technical leadership across teams.</li></ul> #MAI#Microsoft_Advertiser This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled. <hr> 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 <a href="https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/accessibility.html">requesting accommodations.</a>

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Business Analytics II

2026-08-10

India, Karnataka, Bangalore

4 days / week in-office

Overview Microsoft AI is a customer-first organization focused on building AI-powered products that help customers and businesses achieve more in an evolving technology landscape. As AI reshapes how people discover information, engage with services, and conduct business, we need product leaders who can navigate ambiguity, bring clarity to complex challenges, and drive meaningful customer and business impact.As a member of the Microsoft AI Monetization Platform Trust & Safety team, you will play a critical role in ensuring that our products and platforms remain safe, trustworthy, and effective. You will work on some of the most important challenges facing modern digital ecosystems, including trust and safety, fraud and abuse prevention, risk management, operational excellence, quality systems, automation, and AI-driven decision making. In this role, you will partner closely with Engineering, Data Science, Research, Operations, Policy, Risk, and Business stakeholders to define and deliver scalable solutions that protect users, customers, advertisers, and the broader ecosystem while enabling sustainable business growth. You will help shape how Trust & Safety systems operate, how risk is measured and managed, and how emerging technologies such as AI and agentic systems can be leveraged to improve outcomes at scale.<ul type="disc"><li>Has experience in Trust & Safety, Integrity, Fraud Prevention, Abuse Prevention, Risk Management, Policy, Security, Compliance, Operations, Analytics, or related domains.</li><li>Demonstrates strong ownership and a bias for action, consistently driving measurable impact through data-driven decision making.</li><li>Operates effectively across complex cross-functional environments, balancing customer, business, operational, policy, and technical considerations.</li><li>Excels at translating ambiguous problems into scalable solutions and influencing outcomes across diverse stakeholder groups.</li><li>Possesses strong analytical capabilities and uses data to identify opportunities, risks, operational improvements, and investment priorities.</li><li>Is energized by fast-moving environments and enjoys solving complex ecosystem-wide challenges at scale.</li></ul>You will work within the Microsoft AI (MAI) organization, powering AI-first experiences across products including Copilot, Bing, Edge, MSN, and future AI-driven services. MAI brings together Product, Engineering, Research, Design, and Go-To-Market teams to deliver innovative solutions at global scale. As part of a highly collaborative, cross-functional team, you will partner with engineers, designers, researchers, operators, analysts, marketers, and business leaders to build impactful customer experiences. We operate with a strong sense of ownership, customer obsession, and data-driven decision making in a rapidly evolving AI landscape.As AI transforms the digital ecosystem, this role offers a unique opportunity to help define how trust, safety, quality, and operational excellence evolve in an increasingly agentic world.Microsoft's mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. Our employees embrace a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, collaborate to realize shared goals, and contribute to a culture grounded in respect, integrity, accountability, and inclusion. This role is ideal for a builder who thrives in ambiguity, enjoys rapidly turning ideas into prototypes and scalable solutions, and is passionate about leveraging data, automation, AI, and operational excellence to improve Trust & Safety outcomes at global scale. Responsibilities <ul type="disc"><li>Partner with Engineering, Data Science, Operations, Policy, Risk, and Security teams to proactively identify vulnerabilities, abuse vectors, and emerging threats across Trust & Safety systems.</li><li>Design and execute adversarial testing programs that challenge detection models, enforcement systems, review processes, and operational workflows.</li><li>Simulate real-world attacker behaviors, fraud tactics, prompt attacks, evasion techniques, policy circumvention attempts, and abuse patterns to uncover system weaknesses.</li><li>Identify, document, and prioritize vulnerabilities, failure modes, blind spots, and emerging risks, driving mitigation strategies with partner teams.</li><li>Create adversarial datasets, benchmark sets, attack corpora, and test scenarios to evaluate system robustness, reliability, and resilience.</li><li>Perform hands-on labeling, content review, evaluation, and adjudication activities as needed to establish ground truth, characterize new attack patterns, validate vulnerabilities, and improve model performance.</li><li>Generate actionable insights from investigations, attack simulations, labeling exercises, evaluation programs, and operational datasets to identify emerging trends and evolving threat patterns.</li><li>Partner with Engineering and Data Science teams to improve model performance through adversarial testing, error analysis, red-team evaluations, feedback loops, and continuous learning mechanisms.</li><li>Define red-teaming methodologies, attack taxonomies, threat models, and evaluation frameworks to systematically assess Trust & Safety defenses.</li><li>Monitor external abuse trends, fraud ecosystems, industry developments, and emerging AI-powered attack techniques relevant to digital advertising and online platforms.</li><li>Design experimentation and validation frameworks to assess the effectiveness of new defenses, controls, models, and enforcement mechanisms.</li><li>Drive cross-functional initiatives from threat discovery through mitigation while balancing customer experience, operational efficiency, safety, and business objectives.</li><li>Communicate technical findings, attack patterns, risk assessments, and strategic recommendations to technical and non-technical stakeholders.</li><li>Embody Microsoft’s Culture and Values.</li></ul> Qualifications <ul type="disc"><li>Bachelor's Degree in Business, Public Policy, Communications, Operations, Economics, Psychology, Social Sciences, Data Science, Analytics, Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.</li><li>3+ years of experience in Trust & Safety, Risk Management, Fraud Prevention, Abuse Prevention, Integrity Systems, Security, Threat Intelligence, Quality Operations, Product Management, Program Management, Analytics, Marketplace Integrity, or related domains.</li><li>Experience identifying vulnerabilities, abuse patterns, operational risks, adversarial behaviors, quality gaps, or system weaknesses using data-driven approaches.</li><li>Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with experience investigating complex issues, generating insights, and driving risk mitigation initiatives.</li><li>Experience working across cross-functional teams including Engineering, Data Science, Operations, Policy, Risk, and Business stakeholders.</li><li>Demonstrated ability to translate ambiguous threats, risks, or quality issues into actionable recommendations, evaluation frameworks, or operational improvements.</li><li>Familiarity with AI/ML-powered systems and the role of adversarial testing, human review, labeling, evaluation, and feedback loops in improving model quality and safety outcomes.</li><li>Experience evaluating products, models, workflows, or operational processes using experimentation, metrics, audits, data analysis, or structured investigations.</li><li>Strong communication, stakeholder management, and influencing skills.</li></ul> Preferred Qualifications:<ul type="disc"><li>Experience working in large-scale Trust & Safety, Marketplace Integrity, Fraud Prevention, Online Safety, Security, Risk Management, Compliance, or Content Moderation environments.</li><li>Experience conducting adversarial testing, red-team exercises, threat modeling, abuse investigations, fraud analysis, vulnerability discovery, or attack-simulation programs.</li><li>Familiarity with Generative AI, Agentic AI, Large Language Models (LLMs), jailbreak techniques, prompt attacks, model evasion techniques, and adversarial AI evaluation methodologies.</li><li>Hands-on experience performing labeling, evaluation, adjudication, calibration reviews, abuse investigations, or content assessments to create high-quality adversarial and ground-truth datasets.</li><li>Experience creating attack taxonomies, benchmark datasets, threat intelligence frameworks, red-team methodologies, or evaluation programs.</li><li>Experience generating actionable insights from large-scale investigation, evaluation, risk, quality, enforcement, or operational datasets and translating findings into model, product, or policy improvements.</li><li>Working knowledge of SQL, Power BI, Python, or similar analytics and reporting tools.</li><li>Experience partnering with Engineering and Data Science teams to improve AI/ML systems through red-teaming, evaluation design, labeling strategies, error analysis, experimentation, and feedback-loop mechanisms.</li><li>Demonstrated curiosity, investigative mindset, and ability to identify emerging risks before they become material business or ecosystem issues.</li><li>Proven ability to thrive in fast-paced, ambiguous environments while driving measurable customer, quality, safety, and business impact.</li></ul> This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled. <hr> 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 <a href="https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/accessibility.html">requesting accommodations.</a>

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