Senior Software Engineer Job at Microsoft Corporation (Bangalore)

Senior Software Engineer

Microsoft Corporation

Location:
India , Bangalore

Category:
IT - Software Development

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Job Description:

Are you interested in designing and coding a next-generation application used by millions of users every day? Do you wish to help us scale to over a billion users? If you have answered a resounding “YES!” for all the above, then we may have a position for you! The Outlook Engineering team designs and implements services to support different Outlook clients which have hundreds of millions of active users. We are building the next generation of Co-Pilot and Artificial Intelligence (AI) driven productivity features in email to help everyone on the planet to do more and stay organized. And we are looking for a Senior Software Engineer who is passionate about creating best-in-class intelligent user experiences and eager to join a team that moves fast, is data-driven, and cares deeply about our customers. You will be part of a passionate and creative team working to modernize the way people collaborate and communicate. This is a great opportunity to prove yourself and accelerate your career growth. 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.

Job Responsibility:

Works with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., program manager, technical lead) to determine user requirements for a set of features
Begins to leverage a variety of feedback channels to incorporate insights into future designs or solution fixes
Incorporates appropriate continuous feedback loops measuring customer value, usage patterns, and other actionable metrics of value
Contributes to processes for the architecture of a product/solution feature and helps to create proposals for architecture by testing design hypotheses and helping to refine code plans, with technical leadership from others
Provides initial reactions and input to architects
Begins to own solutions for architecting of solutions, following technical leadership as applicable
Contributes to the development of design documents for designs or User Stories with oversight, and determines the technology that will be leveraged and how it will interact
Escalates and shares findings from investigations with the team and owns some design decisions
Helps to assure system architecture meets security and compliance requirements and expectations
Creates and implements code for a product, service, or feature, reusing code as applicable
Writes and learns to create code that is extensible and maintainable
Considers diagnosability, reliability, and maintainability with few defects, and understands when the code is ready to be shared and delivered
Applies coding patterns and best practices to write code
Reviews work items to deepen knowledge of product features in partnership with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., Program managers) and executes project plans, release plans, and work items
Contributes to efforts to break down larger work items into smaller work items and provides estimation
Escalates any issues that would cause a delay
Maintains operations of live service as issues arise
Identifies solutions and mitigations to simple issues and complex issues when applicable impacting performance or functionality of Live Site services and escalates as necessary
Builds knowledge, shares new ideas, and shares pinpoints of engineering tool gaps to improve software developer tools to support other programs, tools, and applications to create, debug, and maintain code for complex product features
Maintains communication with key partners across the Microsoft ecosystem of engineers
Considers partners across teams and their end goals for products to drive and achieve desirable user experiences and fitting the dynamic needs of partners/customers through product development

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
Solid passion and proven experience delivering high quality services
7+ years of experience designing, implementing, and shipping products
Exceptional problem solving, coding & debugging skills
Solid communication and collaboration skills
Experience developing, debugging, and shipping software products on large code bases that span platforms and tools
Ability to deliver outstanding results in fast-paced, dynamic environment
Deep passion for customers, design thinking, and technology
High learnability on the AI stack

Nice to have:

Full Stack Experience with coding in C#
Experience with full stack development is a plus – Application development not limited to React JS, C++ etc
Experience with Backend Services/Substrate development
Experience shipping end to end features on Application stack and Backend Stack
AI development experience is a plus – Prompt engineering, LLM/SLM model tuning and deployment, Model deployment pipeline and feedback loops
Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
March 27, 2026

Employment Type:

Fulltime

Work Type:

Hybrid work

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