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Software Engineer

Hyderabad · On-site · 7+ yrs · Senior · Full-time

  • azure stack
  • asp.net mvc
  • react
  • angularjs
  • rest
  • web apis
  • sql
  • devops

Senior Software Engineer for Microsoft Commerce Platform in Hyderabad, building scalable cloud commerce systems.

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Posted 15 Oct 2026 · found on Microsoft's own careers page

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Written from 8 current Platform postings on Microsoft's own careers page — not questions Microsoft has asked.

  1. Fabric is described as a 'high throughput and multi-tenant service.' Walk me through how you'd design tenant isolation so one noisy customer can't degrade performance for others, and how you'd detect that it's happening in production.
    From the posting: “Work with all aspects of a high throughput and multi-tenant service.``` · Collaborate effectively within the team and with partner teams across Microsoft. · Be part of the on-call rotation for maintaining service health. The fragment used: "high throughput and multi-tenant service"”
  2. You're on-call for Fabric and get paged for a sudden spike in latency affecting a subset of tenants during peak hours. Walk me through how you'd triage this.
    From the posting: “Be part of the on-call rotation for maintaining service health.”
  3. We've got a metric that says our service reliability is degrading, but you're also supposed to be shipping a new feature your product manager is excited about. How would you handle that tension?
    From the posting: “Champion operational excellence via established metrics, process governance, and policy controls for regular assessment and improvement.”
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Overview

The Commerce Platform (CP) org enables one of Microsoft’s most business-critical needs, building the platform to enable commerce across Microsoft. Given Microsoft's global presence in over 240 markets, close to 150 million transactions a day, and billions of dollars in revenue, commerce platform needs to be true internet scale and have state of the art availability, reliability and performance and extensibility. Join the Commerce Platform (CP)) team – Enterprise Commerce (EC) Team, responsible for building Microsoft Commercial Commerce Engine, Licensing and Fulfilments platforms at planet scale for millions of customers, large enterprises and Governments. You have an opportunity to build and manage AI and Azure powered platforms that handle millions of transactions per day and processing of $100B+ of Microsoft Revenue.

As we embark on our next rung of growth, we have bold goals to build a New Commerce platform for Microsoft, with focus on Simplification of Licensing, Faster Go To Market, delightful and productive customer experiences in both Commercial & Consumer space, imbibing the principles of Artificial Intelligence + Continuous Improvement. Our Team Culture: AI driven applications and developer productivity. Work Environment where exploration, experimentation is encouraged Simplifying customer experiences by latest technologies and matured engineering processes Empowering and Enabling individuals & teams to realize their full potential Data & Insights driven roadmap of products & decision making Focus on outcome, customer pain points, high quality of delivery

Responsibilities

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to help us achieve our ambitious goals in the Modern Commerce Journey. In this role, you will apply your technical expertise in full-stack development while contributing to the vision and roadmap of the product. You will have the opportunity to solve complex problems and build end-to-end systems with a strong focus on customer needs and high-quality outcomes. Our work spans a broad range of areas, including big data, highly scalable cloud platforms, services, user experience, security, data science, and machine learning.

We are looking for individuals who are adaptable, curious, eager to continuously learn, and motivated to take on new challenges.

Responsibilities

Drive end-to-end ownership of the design and architecture for assigned areas. Develop technical and functional requirements aligned with organizational goals. Design solutions considering key architectural principles, including performance, security, reliability, scalability, and configurability. Collaborate and partner with stakeholders to support effective decision-making and accelerate product roadmaps.

Simplify complex problems and systems and apply strong debugging and problem-solving skills. Promote code reuse and knowledge sharing across components and teams. Mentor and support team members, fostering collaboration, continuous learning, productivity, and high-quality outcomes.

Qualifications

7+ years of experience in technical roles, with demonstrated experience delivering and supporting production-ready solutions. Technical skills: Proficiency in Azure Stack, ASP.NET MVC, React or AngularJS, REST, Web APIs, SQL, and DevOps practices. Education: Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, a related technical discipline, or equivalent practical experience . This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

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 with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.

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