Senior Software Engineer Job at Microsoft Corporation (Hyderabad)

Senior Software Engineer

Microsoft Corporation

Location:
India , Hyderabad

Category:
IT - Software Development

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Job Description:

Core, we are advancing Foundational Observability, elevating existing standards and introducing innovations that set a new benchmark for reliability and resilience. As a Senior Software Engineer, you will design and build solutions that deliver step-change improvements in telemetry, detection, and recovery across core infrastructure and foundational services. Your work will enable rapid, localized issue detection and resilient recovery at global scale, ensuring Azure Core meets the highest standards of performance and operational excellence. You will collaborate across Azure and partner teams to integrate with existing systems while introducing modern approaches that maximize impact and efficiency. This role also involves leveraging and contributing to open-source frameworks and communities. You will work in a fast-paced environment, solving complex problems that require creativity and teamwork to deliver meaningful business outcomes.

Job Responsibility:

Design, implement, test, and optimize software features that improve observability for Azure Core services
Develop scalable, resilient systems for telemetry, detection, and automated recovery across global deployments
Collaborate with engineering and product teams to integrate observability solutions with existing systems
Contribute to open-source frameworks and adopt best practices for observability and reliability
Actively participate in incident response and ensure high availability for critical services
Continuously improve code quality, maintainability, and operational excellence through refactoring and automation.

Requirements:

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 7+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to(C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python) - (OR equivalent experience)
Hands-on experience with any cloud platform
2+ year(s) experience designing and building distributed systems or cloud-scale services
2+ year(s) of proficiency with observability concepts (telemetry, logging, metrics, detection) and operational excellence
1+ year(s) of collaborating across teams and delivering exceptional solutions in a fast-paced environment
Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings: Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Nice to have:

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 7+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
OR Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
OR equivalent experience
Experience with service reliability engineering and incident management for mission-critical systems
Familiarity with open-source frameworks and standards related to observability
Demonstrated ability improving system reliability and performance at scale.

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
February 04, 2026

Employment Type:

Fulltime

Work Type:

Hybrid work

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