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Senior Software Engineer - Cloud & Security

Microsoft· Software Engineering
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India, Telangana, HyderabadFull-timePosted 3w ago

About the role

Senior Software Engineer role focusing on cloud and security, collaborating with stakeholders to define requirements, drive design and release plans, develop scalable security detections, and ensure system reliability and performance at scale.

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 ROI.
  • Leverages subject-matter expertise of product features and partners with appropriate stakeholders 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.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor and/or Graduate degree in computer science, engineering or equivalent
  • 7+ years of professional development.
  • Technical Stack: C++, C#, big data, ML, NLP, and search technologies.
  • Focus Areas: Strong analytical skills, customer engagement, and cross-functional collaboration.
  • Familiarity with Microsoft Cloud Services (Azure, Entra, O365).
  • Security awareness (penetration testing, threat analysis).
  • Drives proactive threat identification and threat modeling, builds scalable security detections, and engineer's end-to-end solutions to detect, mitigate, and prevent security risks across infrastructure and services.

Skills

Required:Programming in C++Programming in C#Big dataMachine LearningSecurity awareness and threat modelingCloud services (Azure, Entra, O365)
Nice to have:Natural Language Processing
Last updated Oct 1, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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