senior Software Engineer ic · Posted May 15, 2026

About this role

Microsoft is hiring a senior-level Software Engineer based in Hyderabad, India. The posting calls out experience with Python, JavaScript, Java, Rust.

Role
Software Engineer
Function
software engineering
Level
senior
Track
Individual contributor
Employment
Full-time
Location
Hyderabad, India
Department
Software Engineering
Posted
May 15, 2026

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Job description

from Microsoft careers
Overview

As a Senior Software Engineer on the GitHub Enterprise Server (GHES) Release team, you will play a critical role in building, validating, and delivering the software artifacts that enable GHES to ship reliably to customers worldwide. This team owns critical parts of the GHES release pipeline, including OS and container builds across the platform, infrastructure, and application layers; package generation and certification; integration test environments; and distribution of release artifacts through Azure, AWS, and GCP. 

In this role, you will work across engineering teams to improve release reliability, accelerate issue detection and triage, and ensure GHES ships as a high-quality, secure, and dependable appliance for enterprise customers. 



Responsibilities
  • Own and improve the systems that build GHES operating system images, containers, and appliance artifacts across platform, infrastructure, and application layers. 

  • Design, maintain, and evolve the release pipelines that generate, validate, and certify packages for GHES customer delivery. 

  • Build and operate integration test environments for GHES, ensuring they are reliable, representative, and scalable for continuous validation. 

  • Drive CI quality by improving test execution, signal reliability, issue detection, triage, and partnership with feature teams to resolve failures. 

  • Enable publication and distribution of GHES artifacts to Azure, AWS, and GCP for customer consumption. 

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