Senior Software Engineer-GitHub Job at Microsoft Corporation (Hyderabad)

Job Description

As a Senior Software Engineer on the GitHub Enterprise Server (GHES) Release team, you will play a critical role in building, validating, and delivering the software artifacts that enable GHES to ship reliably to customers worldwide. This team owns critical parts of the GHES release pipeline, including OS and container builds across the platform, infrastructure, and application layers; package generation and certification; integration test environments; and distribution of release artifacts through Azure, AWS, and GCP. In this role, you will work across engineering teams to improve release reliability, accelerate issue detection and triage, and ensure GHES ships as a high-quality, secure, and dependable appliance for enterprise customers.

Job Responsibility

Own and improve the systems that build GHES operating system images, containers, and appliance artifacts across platform, infrastructure, and application layers
Design, maintain, and evolve the release pipelines that generate, validate, and certify packages for GHES customer delivery
Build and operate integration test environments for GHES, ensuring they are reliable, representative, and scalable for continuous validation
Drive CI quality by improving test execution, signal reliability, issue detection, triage, and partnership with feature teams to resolve failures
Enable publication and distribution of GHES artifacts to Azure, AWS, and GCP for customer consumption
Partner with engineers across platform, infra, release, and product teams to improve release readiness, debugging, and root-cause analysis
Improve the safety, repeatability, observability, and compliance of release and certification workflows
Lead technical investments that reduce release friction, improve engineering velocity, and increase confidence in shipped builds
Contribute across the end-to-end GHES release lifecycle, from build and package generation through validation, certification, and customer delivery
Provide operational support for release infrastructure and lead investigation and resolution of critical issues impacting build, test, certification, or package delivery

Requirements

6+ years experience in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical discipline with proven experience maintaining and delivering production software coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Go, Ruby, Rust, or Python
Experience building and operating production CI/CD or release pipelines for complex distributed systems
Experience with Linux-based systems, containers, and software packaging or artifact delivery
Experience troubleshooting build, test, and release failures across multiple layers of the stack
Proven ability to improve engineering systems through automation, observability, and process simplification
OR Associate’s Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Math, Physics, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 5+ years experience in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical discipline with proven experience maintaining and delivering production software coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Go, Ruby, Rust, or Python
OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Math, Physics, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 4+ years experience in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical discipline with proven experience maintaining and delivering production software coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Go, Ruby, Rust, or Python
OR Master's Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Math, Physics, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 2+ years experience in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical discipline with proven experience maintaining and delivering production software coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Go, Ruby, Rust, or Python
OR Doctorate in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Math, Physics, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field
OR equivalent experience

Nice to have

Experience with release engineering for enterprise/on-prem or appliance-based software
Experience building or maintaining integration test environments at scale
Experience with package certification, compliance, or secure software delivery processes
Experience publishing or distributing artifacts through Azure, AWS, and/or GCP
Experience working across platform, infrastructure, and application teams in a highly cross-functional environment
Minimum 2 years experience in one or more scripting languages (e.g., Bash, Python, or a similar language)
Minimum 2 years experience using general purpose programming languages (e.g., Go, Ruby, or a similar language)
Minimum 3 years experience with cloud environments and/or Cloud Native Compute Foundation (CNCF) concepts

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