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Senior Software Engineer

Microsoft

Microsoft

Software Engineering
Posted on Dec 13, 2024

Senior Software Engineer

Hyderabad, Telangana, India

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Date posted
Oct 17, 2024
Job number
1775194
Work site
Up to 50% work from home
Travel
0-25 %
Role type
Individual Contributor
Profession
Software Engineering
Discipline
Software Engineering
Employment type
Full-Time

Overview

Are you interested in working for one of the most exciting and fast-growing teams in Microsoft? Then look at the Microsoft Defender Engineering team. You will be building cloud solutions in order to meet scales that few companies in the industry are required to support. Leveraging state of the art technologies, you will be instrumental in delivering holistic protection to a user base of tens of thousands of government organizations, enterprises, and SMB businesses around the globe. The Microsoft Threat Protection team is responsible for delivering a constantly evolving set of services and solutions to meet the challenging landscape of our ever-evolving attackers.

This is an Engineering Systems team which provides leadership, direction, and accountability for developer tools and platforms, CICD, engineering infrastructure, and secured development standards. You will help develop solutions that optimize dev-test-release process with focus on securing entire developer eco-system from supply-chain attacks and operate our production services. Strong collaboration skills will be required to work closely with other engineering teams to ensure services and systems are highly stable, performant, and meet the expectations of internal and external customers and users.

Qualifications

  • Significant development experience using common object-oriented or functional languages such as C#, Python, or Java
  • 5+ years of hands-on experience with cloud platforms such as Azure, AWS, or GCP
  • Strong hands-on understanding and experience with CI\CD tools, practices and source control
  • 5+ years of a mix of coding/testing/Integration experience
  • Proven experience with building and supporting services, including logging, monitoring, alerting, and measuring reliability and availability.
  • Ability to thrive with the ambiguity associated with working in a fast-paced and changing environment.
  • Exceptional Leadership skills: Sound problem resolution, judgment, negotiating and decision-making skills.
  • Support a 24x7 live site support model for the services the team owns. Qualifications: Other Requirements –
  • Azure DevOps and GitHub tooling
  • Understanding of Kubernetes administration
  • Hands-on scripting knowledge in Powershell
  • Platform development experience for sandboxed environments
  • Azure Data Explorer, Azure Data Lake, Azure Machine Learning, Azure Batch, HDI, Spark, Azure Synapse
  • Excellent communication skills and ability to collaborate in a multi-disciplinary team consisting of Software Engineers, Program Managers, Security Researchers, and Data Scientists
  • Development experience with cloud platforms such as Microsoft Azure

Responsibilities

As a Senior Software Engineer, you would be responsible for:

  • Defining well thought out design patterns and code with an emphasis on quality, simplicity, maintainability, and performance Engineering systems.
  • Driving efficiencies through software improvement and root cause analysis resulting in service delivery, maturity, and scalability.
  • Proactively identifying and reducing issues through design, testing, and implementation of software-based solutions
  • Identify opportunities and drive the design and implementation of end-to-end telemetry, alerting, self-healing, and automation capabilities to improve service health, manageability, and reliability.
  • Mentor junior engineers on coding and design best practices.

You will be responsible for working with various disciplines; to address customers’ needs and create new scenarios and features that provide customer value


Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.
Industry leading healthcare
Educational resources
Discounts on products and services
Savings and investments
Maternity and paternity leave
Generous time away
Giving programs
Opportunities to network and connect

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.