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Senior Software Engineer

Microsoft

Microsoft

Software Engineering
Posted on Oct 15, 2025

Senior Software Engineer

Hyderabad, Telangana, India

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Date posted
Oct 14, 2025
Job number
1894522
Work site
Fully on-site
Travel
0-25 %
Role type
Individual Contributor
Profession
Software Engineering
Discipline
Software Engineering
Employment type
Full-Time

Overview

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.

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.

Qualifications

Required/Minimum Qualifications (RQs/MQs)

  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 8+ 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.

Additional or Preferred Qualifications (PQs)

  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science
  • OR related technical field AND 8+ 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 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
  • OR equivalent experience.
  • Knowledge of SharePoint Online is a Plus.


Responsibilities

  • 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.

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.