Software Engineer - Backend

**ZEISS in India** ZEISS in India is headquartered in Bengaluru and present in the fields of Industrial Quality Solutions, Research Microscopy Solutions, Medical Technology, Vision Care and Sports \& Cine Optics. ZEISS India has 3 production facilities, R\&D center, Global IT services and about 40 Sales \& Service offices in almost all Tier I and Tier II cities in India. With 2200\+ employees and continued investments over 25 years in India, ZEISS’ success story in India is continuing at a rapid pace. Further information at ZEISS India . **Company Name:** Carl Zeiss India Bangalore ZEISS India **Position** **Title:** **Software Engineer (Global Role)** **Department:** CIT **Location** Bangalore (ZIGCC) **Employment** **type** Full Time ### **About the Team** The **Monetization Platforms** department is one of the strategic units within Corporate IT and is responsible for Design, development \& management of Billing, Licensing and Subscription Solutions as three central services across the ZEISS Group worldwide. ### **Your Role** As a **Software Engineer (Global Role) with 2\-7 years** , you are responsible for the backend development on Azure for Licensing platform at Zeiss. **Your key responsibilities:** **Must\-Have Skills (Non\-Negotiable):** * Several years of hands\-on experience developing backend services on Microsoft Azure, especially Azure App Services / Web Apps and Azure Functions * Strong proficiency in C\# / .NET for building scalable, maintainable, and testable backend APIs * Proven experience designing and implementing RESTful APIs (request/response design, versioning, error handling) * Practical experience operating production systems: monitoring, incident handling, troubleshooting, and performance optimization * Strong focus on code quality, clean architecture, and secure coding practices * Experience working in agile development teams (Scrum/Kanban) using Git\-based workflows and pull requests **Core Technical Requirements:** * Advanced proficiency in C\# / .NET for cloud\-native development (e.g. or newer) * Hands\-on experience with Azure Functions (HTTP triggers, timer triggers, queues/topics, bindings) and Azure App Services * Solid experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC), e.g. using Bicep, ARM templates, Terraform, or similar, to provision and manage Azure resources * Experience with Azure DevOps for CI/CD (build and release pipelines, YAML pipelines, artifact management) * Experience implementing authentication \& authorization (e.g. Azure AD / Entra ID, OAuth2/OIDC, role\-based access) * Hands\-on experience with logging, monitoring, and diagnostics using Azure Application Insights and related tooling * Familiarity with automated testing (unit, integration, and API tests) integrated into the CI/CD pipeline * Knowledge of Azure data services (e.g. Storage, SQL) is helpful but not required **Broader Responsibilities the Candidate Will Own:** * Design, implementation, and maintenance of central backend services for software licensing used across ZEISS business units * End\-to\-end ownership of services over their full lifecycle: development, deployment, monitoring, incident handling, and continuous improvement * Implementation and maintenance of Infrastructure as Code for backend services and related Azure resources * Collaboration with architects, client engineers (C\+\+ / C\#), and the React portal team to ensure consistent end\-to\-end flows for licensing use cases * Definition and implementation of non\-functional requirements (security, reliability, scalability, performance, observability) for backend services * Continuous optimization and automation of build, test, and deployment pipelines in Azure DevOps * Participation in on\-call / incident processes as required, including root\-cause analysis and long\-term remediation * Contribution to architecture decisions, coding standards, and documentation within the backend and platform teams **Basic Requirements:** * University degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or a comparable qualification * Typically, 2 years of professional experience as a backend or cloud engineer on the Microsoft stack * Proven experience delivering and operating Azure\-based backend solutions in a professional environment * Experience working in international, cross\-functional teams within corporate IT or product development * Strong analytical and problem\-solving skills with a structured, proactive, and reliable working style * Good communication skills in English, both written and spoken **Solid understanding of:** * Cloud\-native backend architectures on Azure (microservices, serverless, APIs, integration patterns) * REST API design principles, including authentication, authorization, error handling, and versioning * DevOps concepts and CI/CD practices with Azure DevOps (pipelines, environments, approvals, rollback strategies) * Infrastructure as Code principles (idempotency, modularization, environments, reviewable changes) and their application in Azure * Security and compliance requirements in enterprise environments (identity and access management, secrets management, data protection) * Observability practices (logging, metrics, tracing, dashboards, alerting) for production systems * Resilience and reliability patterns (retry, circuit breaker, timeouts, graceful degradation) in distributed systems * Collaboration with Business Analysts and other stakeholders to translate requirements into robust backend solutions * Basic understanding of software licensing concepts and workflows is a plus ### **About Zeiss:** Join us at ZEISS, the global leader in optics and optoelectronics with market\-leading positions in its four main segments: **Semiconductor Manufacturing Technology, Industrial Quality \& Research, Medical Technology, and Consumer Markets** (which includes Vision Care, Sports \& Cine Optics, and Photography) since 1846\. The company is known for shaping technological progress and offers a wide range of solutions for various fields, including life sciences, healthcare, eye care, and industrial quality. Headquartered in Oberkochen, Germany, we're a global powerhouse with over 50,000 dedicated employees spanning more than 50 countries. Our relentless pursuit of innovation has earned us a reputation as a leading technology enterprise. ### **What You Can Expect** * A strategically relevant role within ZEISS’ **central monetization platform landscape** * Significant room for shaping and evolving modern developer ecosystems * Collaboration in an interdisciplinary and international environment * Long‑term perspective at a globally leading technology company Location: Bangalore **Must\-Have Skills (Non\-Negotiable):** * Several years of hands\-on experience developing backend services on Microsoft Azure, especially Azure App Services / Web Apps and Azure Functions * Strong proficiency in C\# / .NET for building scalable, maintainable, and testable backend APIs * Proven experience designing and implementing RESTful APIs (request/response design, versioning, error handling) * Practical experience operating production systems: monitoring, incident handling, troubleshooting, and performance optimization * Strong focus on code quality, clean architecture, and secure coding practices * Experience working in agile development teams (Scrum/Kanban) using Git\-based workflows and pull requests Your ZEISS Recruiting Team: Saptarshi Chowdhury Note: This is a third party job (Aggregated by careeruplift.ai). Shortlisting and Final hiring decision & process is handled by the company.