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Senior Software Engineering Manager

Senior Software Engineering Manager

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8 years

1 - 6 Lacs

Hyderābād

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Work Mode

Remote

Job Type

Full Time

Job Description

Senior Software Engineering Manager

Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Date posted

Jul 19, 2025

Job number

1846706

Work site

Up to 50% work from home

Travel

0-25 %

Role type

People Manager

Profession

Software Engineering

Discipline

Software Engineering

Employment type

Full-Time

Overview

We are the Windows Servicing and Delivery (WSD) organization, our core mission is to keep customers protected and productive by delivering seamless and timely Windows updates to our customers in existing and future versions of Windows. This work demands solving complex challenges in the Windows operating systems and building mission-critical services and infrastructure. In addition to updates, we empower commercial and enterprise customers with products and solutions to deploy and secure their devices effectively.

We are looking for a highly motivated Software Engineering Leader to join our mission. In this role, you will lead design and develop of highly scalable, reliable software solutions in Windows. You will also be responsible for keeping our customer base secure, improving the reliability of the platform, addressing customer reported issues, building data insights, and developing features to light up new scenarios and devices in the Windows ecosystem.

As a member of the team, you will act as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) in an on-call rotation to monitor system/product feature/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions and gains approval to restore system/product/service for simple problems.

We value passion, creativity, agility, accountability and desire to learn new complex technical areas. Our customers are at the heart of everything we do, and delivering exceptional Windows experiences is our top priority. Their excitement fuels our passion for building high-quality solutions.

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.

If you're excited about building world-class teams, thrive on solving tough problems, and are driven by customer impact, we’d love to hear from you.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

Bachelor's degree in computer science or related technical field
8+ years of professional software development experience in C++ and Windows or related technologies.
3+ years of experience leading software engineering teams.
Experience with large scale services architectures and technologies

Preferred Qualifications:

Experience in working with Windows system level programming is desirable.
Experience building solutions with Azure is a plus (Cosmos DB, Azure Tables, Service Fabric, Logic Apps, Azure Functions, AppInsights, AAD, Pipelines) is a plus
Demonstrated engineering leadership and experience in building and managing diverse and inclusive teams.
Proven design and problem-solving skills, with an emphasis on quality and engineering excellence.
Demonstrated experience leading and growing team
Demonstrated experience in collaborating with geographically distributed partner teams
Proven communication skills, both verbal and written.
Ability to understand unfamiliar code bases, and debug server-side, multi-threaded, and highly scalable applications.

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Responsibilities

Modeling, coaching, and caring for employees and peers, helping everyone bring their best self to work and continue to grow in their careers, as you grow in yours.
Promote cross group collaboration, working across boundaries and building partnerships with stakeholder teams to achieve consensus and best customer outcome.
Delivery of technical solutions with an appropriate balance of risk taking and prioritization – taking projects from ideation to results, with high quality.
Design, develop, and operationalize the deployment of complex, enterprise-grade solutions.
Reproducing, debugging and fixing customer-reported problems.
Crafting high-quality, bug-free fixes with minimum application compatibility risk.
Add new features to Windows.
Lead by example, engage in discussions on the architecture of products or solutions, and apply engineering principles to establish robust and maintainable architecture and designs.
Driving engineering improvements and rigor within the team as well as with stakeholders.
Mentoring junior engineers in the team.

Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.

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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.

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