Senior Software Engineer Job at Microsoft Corporation (Hyderabad)

Senior Software Engineer

Microsoft Corporation

Location:
India , Hyderabad

Category:
IT - Software Development

Contract Type:
Not provided

Salary:

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Job Description:

Are you passionate about revolutionizing experiences through cutting-edge innovations? Does the challenge of building highly performant, distributed, scalable, intelligent, and compliant cloud-based agentic solutions excite you? If so, the Planner team wants you to help shape the future of work and productivity. At Planner, we are not just building a product, we’re shaping the future of collaboration for millions of users worldwide. We invite you to bring your expertise, passion, and innovation to our team and help us achieve this ambitious vision. Let's build the next generation of AI-powered productivity experiences together! As a Senior Software Engineer, you will have an opportunity to work in a fast-paced, collaborative environment to solve complex problems and build services at scale. You will be able to gain hands-on experience with the latest technologies in AI, distributed systems, cloud services, and collaboration tools and get an opportunity to work on high-impact projects that shape the future of productivity and collaboration at scale.

Job Responsibility:

Collaborates with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a scenario
Drives identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for a product, application, service, or platform
Creates, implements, optimizes, debugs, refactors, and reuses code to establish and improve performance and maintainability, effectiveness, and return on investment (ROI)
Leverages subject-matter expertise of product features and partners with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project managers) to drive a workgroup's project plans, release plans, and work items
Acts as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) and guides other engineers by developing and following the playbook, working on call to monitor system/product/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions, alerting stakeholders about status and initiates actions to restore system/product/service for simple and complex problems when appropriate
Proactively seeks new knowledge and adapts to new trends, technical solutions, and patterns that will improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while also driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale

Requirements:

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience
Experience building back-end systems
Demonstrate a growth mindset and a passion for learning new technologies
Excellent communication, collaboration, and problem-solving skills
Experience with agile development methodologies, such as Scrum
Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role
Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter

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Job Posted:
February 18, 2026

Employment Type:

Fulltime

Work Type:

On-site work

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