Senior Software Engineer

Job Description

Senior Software Engineer Hyderabad, Telangana, India Date posted Jun 24, 2025 Job number 1832421 Work site Up to 50% work from home Travel 0-25 % Role type Individual Contributor Profession Software Engineering Discipline Software Engineering Employment type Full-Time 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. Microsoft Purview team’s mission is to building cloud solutions to support premium features that provide security, compliance, data governance, data loss prevention, and more, in a fully integrated manner from services to clients of Office 365 as well as Windows. We create global scale services to transport, store, secure and manage some of the most sensitive data on the planet and build our services on top of Azure, Exchange and One Drive and SharePoint cloud platforms and power our experiences in Microsoft 365 applications like Outlook. The IDC arm of the team is expanding substantially and is looking for talented and highly motivated engineers. This is an excellent opportunity for anyone who has, or wants to build, expertise in cloud distributed systems, or in security and compliance, or both. The team will be building cloud solutions meeting scales that companies in the industry are required to support that leverage state-of-the-art technologies to deliver holistic protection to a planet scale user base. M365 is the industry leader in hosted productivity suites and boasts to be the fastest growing business at Microsoft with more than 300 million seats hosted in multiple data centers across the globe. You will independently determine and develop customer facing features and infrastructure solutions, and work on high scale production services. Strong collaboration skills will be required to work closely with other engineering teams to ensure services/systems are highly stable and performant and meet the expectations of internal and external customers and users. 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. Qualifications Expertise/Experience Solid understanding of Object-Oriented Programming and common Design Patterns 7+ years of relevant software development experience and proficient in C# (Java or C++) In-depth knowledge of cloud development (Azure, AWS, Google Cloud) • Experience developing and shipping Azure Services is a plus • Experience and involvement with DevOps is a plus Effective communication/collaboration skills, ability to deal with ambiguity and prioritize issues Collaborating with technical partners to deliver end-to-end solutions • Experience with multithreading and asynchronous processing • Experience with CI/CD pipeline using agile practices • Ability to quickly ramp up on multiple technology areas Interpersonal skills • A sense of personal ownership is required, together with the ability to deliver to tight deadlines while managing internal stakeholder expectations • Self-motivated and organized to deliver results Essential qualifications BS or MS degree in Computer Science or Engineering OR equivalent years of work experience. Minimum of 7 years of applicable work experience Responsibilities We are looking for someone who is a highly motivated, self-starter who thrives in a bottoms-up, fast paced, highly technical environment, has a strong customer focus and understands the importance of Live Site. You will be responsible to perform investigations and investments in complex areas; designing and delivering features end to end - including system architecture, code, deployment, scale, performance and quality, from conception to delivery. • Design and develop large scale distributed software services and solutions • Develop “best-in-class” engineering for our services by ensuring that the services and the components are well-defined and modularized, secure, reliable, diagnosable, actively monitored and reusable. Consider testability, portability/monitoring, reliability, and maintainability, and understand when code is ready to be shared and delivered. • Focus on customer/partner needs through a data driven approach. • Troubleshoot and optimize automation, reliability, and monitoring for LiveSite. • Adhere to modern engineering practices, effective coding, writing unit test cases, debugging, code reviewing and creating CI/CD (Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery) pipelines. Work across geographic and organizational boundaries to define requirements, scope work, develop features, integrate functionality, and meet key performance goals. Own and drive projects with large scope and complicated features by working toward self-defined goals and milestones. Have a sense of pride, commitment, and personal accountability for the service quality, completeness and resulting user experience for the life of the product or service Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.  Industry leading healthcare  Educational resources  Discounts on products and services  Savings and investments  Maternity and paternity leave  Generous time away  Giving programs  Opportunities to network and connect 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 and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.