Job Description

Senior Software Engineer

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Hyderabad, Telangana, India



Date posted

Jul 21, 2025

Job number

1830387

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

Would you like the satisfaction that comes with keeping every person and organization on the planet protected and productive each month through delivering high quality Windows updates? Do you want to explore and discover your full engineering potential? Do you enjoy working in a high performing diverse team with comradery and passion for development? If you answered "yes," Windows Servicing and Delivery Update Platform team is the place for you.

We are the Windows Servicing and Delivery (WSD) organization. We deliver updates to every Windows-based device in the world to protect users and enable them to be productive. While Security remains our primary focus, we also enable our commercial and enterprise customers by enabling new device support, addressing reliability and upgrade blocking issues. Our work is critical for the Windows family of devices, SurfaceHub, Azure and more. We are an agile team and ship twice every month, impacting over a billion Windows devices in the ecosystem. You will collaborate with your teammates in IDC, and your partner teams in Ireland and Redmond, Washington, USA.



Our Customer Focused Engineering (CFE) team is looking for a highly motivated

Senior Software Engineer

to help us in this mission. You will play a key role in extending and modifying Windows Operating system code for keeping our customer base secure, improving the reliability of the platform, addressing customer reported issues, and developing features to light up new scenarios and devices in the Windows ecosystem (PCs, Phones, Servers, SurfaceHub, Azure and more). You would get to work in some of the core components of the Windows Operating System ranging from Shell, Graphics, Multimedia, Networking stack, Kernel, Security layer, to several Server components including AD, Cluster, Storage etc.

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 Qualifications:

Experience with relevant programming skills in C, C++ or equivalent Ability to understand unfamiliar code bases, and debug server-side, multi-threaded, and highly scalable applications. Experience in working with Windows system level programming is desirable. Demonstrated results working with a global team. Experience with agile/scrum methodologies. Overall understanding of Azure/Cloud infrastructure is desirable.

Preffered Qualifications:

8+ years of professional software development experience. Proven design and problem-solving skills, with an emphasis on quality and engineering excellence. Proven communication skills, both verbal and written. The ability to work well in a diverse, global, team-focused environment. BS in Computer Science or equivalent preferred.


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Responsibilities

Develop features to support the enterprise and security scenarios in Windows. Reproducing, debugging and fixing customer-reported problems. Crafting high-quality, bug-free fixes with minimum application compatibility risk. Adding new features in Windows. Prioritizing your collection of work and delivering fixes in a timely fashion to meet deadlines. Collaborating with escalation engineers and other partner teams across Microsoft to debug, develop, test and ship updates. Finding ways to improve products, tools, and processes for long-term benefit for Microsoft and customers. Mentoring junior engineers in the team.
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.