Senior Software Engineer

Microsoft Hyderabad, India

About the role

This is a senior software engineering role at Microsoft in Hyderabad, on the Engineering Operations team building AI-powered reliability automation for Azure. It suits an experienced distributed-systems engineer who wants to work on operational excellence, quality and security across Microsoft's cloud. You'll build scalable ML infrastructure that supports autonomous, reliable and secure cloud operations.

What you’ll do

  • Partner across product groups on distributed systems design and cloud technology layers.
  • Mentor others to produce extensible, maintainable code used across products.
  • Develop standards and insights applied across system, platform and product development.
  • Drive continuous improvements in architecture, code and operations.
  • Demonstrate end-to-end expertise in distributed systems design.
  • Provide technical leadership in test maturity reviews, static analysis reviews and on-call rotations.
  • Provide deep business and technical expertise to resolve major incidents.

What they’re looking for

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related technical discipline.
  • 4+ years technical engineering experience coding in C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript or Python.
  • Minimum of three days per week in office.

Nice to have

  • Master's degree in Computer Science or related field with 6+ years technical engineering experience.
  • Bachelor's degree with 8+ years technical engineering experience, or equivalent experience.

Questions about this role

Is this role remote?

No, it's hybrid with a minimum of three days per week in the office in Hyderabad.

How many years of experience do I need?

At least 4 years of technical engineering experience is required.

Do I need a degree?

A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical discipline is required.

How this role compares

One of 11 open Senior Software Engineer roles we are tracking today.

Posted 3 days ago, with 2 of the others posted since and 8 still open from before.

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