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Senior Software Engineer

Microsoft

Microsoft

Software Engineering
Posted on Jul 9, 2025

Senior Software Engineer

Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

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Date posted
Jul 09, 2025
Job number
1843990
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

Security represents the most critical priorities for our customers in a world awash in digital threats, regulatory scrutiny, and estate complexity. Microsoft Security aspires to make the world a safer place for all. We want to reshape security and empower every user, customer, and developer with a security cloud that protects them with end to end, simplified solutions. The Microsoft Security organization accelerates Microsoft’s mission and bold ambitions to ensure that our company and industry is securing digital technology platforms, devices, and clouds in our customers’ heterogeneous environments, as well as ensuring the security of our own internal estate. Our culture is centered on embracing a growth mindset, a theme of inspiring excellence, and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day. In doing so, we create life-changing innovations that impact billions of lives around the world.

The team will be responsible for building and maintaining the core services that form the Control Plane of Microsoft Sentinel Graph (MSG). This crucial mission supports Microsoft's Security business, meeting the immense scale demands that few companies in the industry face. By leveraging cutting-edge technologies, we aim to deliver comprehensive protection to a global user base. The MSG Foundations Control Plane Engineering team is responsible for developing and implementing control plane services that coordinate the setup & interaction between various 1P & internal components needed to onboard an end user and provide complete experience of the Modern Security Data Lake. As a senior engineer, you will contribute to these services by designing and developing solutions that establish the platform's core functionality. . You will work in a forward-looking product as part of an agile, collaborative, and cross-discipline team.

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

  • 8+ years of experience in software development. (Required)
  • BS in Computer Science or higher, equivalent industry experience.
  • Experience in handling large software engineering projects, modularizing them into deliverables for the team, shepherding them to quality delivery, and working closely with engineering partners across the globe. (Required)
  • Demonstrated problem solving and debugging skills. (Required)
  • Breadth and depth technical knowledge in software engineering.
  • Experience in building, shipping, and operating reliable system software preferably with experience in large scale high availability distributed systems.

Other Requirements
Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings: Microsoft Cloud Background Check:

- This position will be required to pass the Microsoft background and Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

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Responsibilities

We are looking for someone who is a highly motivated, self-starter who thrives in a bottoms-up, fast paced, highly technical environment, has a strong customer focus and understands the importance of Live Site, has a demonstrated ability to establish and manage relationships across organizational boundaries, has proven experience dealing with large scale data architecture, operational architecture and or network Architecture and proven experience creating distributed systems tools of moderate-to-high complexity.

  • You will be responsible to perform investigations and investments in complex areas; designing and delivering features end to end - including system architecture, code, deployment, scale, performance and quality, from conception to delivery. In short, you will be responsible for all aspects of a feature area including design
  • Design and implement scalable, reliable, maintainable services
  • Demonstrate strategic understanding of the timing and rationale for design choices, within the scope of work.
  • Consistently contribute key ideas to the product or service design and vision that meets the customer's needs - Drive design reviews across the team and apply expertise in available technologies
  • Apply metrics to drive the quality and stability of code - Have a sense of pride, commitment, and personal accountability for the service quality, completeness and resulting user experience for the life of the product or service • Work closely with geographically distributed team, including Product Managers and developers, to drive key improvements in backend Engineering System.

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.