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Bengaluru, IndiaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Own the architecture of complex and ambiguous products and solutions while evaluating trade-offs and aligning technical decisions with customer, business, and platform outcomes.
- Drive architecture, design, implementation, validation, deployment, and operationalization across multiple large-scale initiatives.
- Design reusable platform products, services, tools, and extensible code that meet performance, scalability, resiliency, disaster recovery, security, compliance, and cost requirements.
- Establish company-wide coding, testing, architecture, and operational standards; lead technical reviews and mentor engineers and technical leaders.
- Lead cross-product debugging, verification, telemetry, incident learning, repair actions, and automation for zero-touch deployment and recurrence prevention.
- Build alignment across teams and leadership, negotiate dependencies and trade-offs, and execute a long-term vision for core infrastructure.
- Influence open-source projects and industry practices while advancing security, privacy, safety, and strategic compliance.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or a related technical field and 8+ years of technical engineering experience with coding, or equivalent experience.
- Preferred qualifications include a master's degree with 12+ years of experience, or a bachelor's degree with 15+ years of experience, or equivalent experience.
- Experience providing architecture and technical leadership for multiple large-scale distributed systems, databases, analytics systems, or platform product areas.
- Experience aligning technical decisions with business outcomes and influencing cross-functional teams and senior technical leadership.
- Experience developing systems with Java, C++, or Rust and applying query execution, indexing, concurrency, distributed algorithms, or data structures.
- Experience influencing open-source projects or participating in open-source project management and governance.
- Experience building interactive services, analytics interfaces, data infrastructure, compute infrastructure, or other large-scale platform systems.
- Ability to complete the Microsoft Cloud Background Check and Microsoft Background Check.
About Microsoft
Microsoft develops operating systems, productivity software, cloud services, developer tools, and consumer devices for individuals, enterprises, and governments. Its main products include Windows, Microsoft 365, Azure, Visual Studio/GitHub, Xbox, and LinkedIn; revenue comes from software subscriptions and licenses, cloud consumption, hardware sales, and advertising. Founded in 1975 and headquartered in Redmond, Washington, Microsoft is a public company traded on Nasdaq.