Microsoft Recruitment 2026 – Software Engineer
Microsoft
Experience2+ Years
QualificationB.E/B.Tech
Key Responsibilities
- Use AI tools across the software development lifecycle in a disciplined manner.
- Review all AI-generated changes and maintain ownership of their quality before release.
- Build extensible, maintainable and low-defect production-quality software.
- Apply coding patterns, security best practices and reusable solutions.
- Review peer code and tests for coverage, engineering standards, security risks and compliance.
- Provide timely and coaching-oriented feedback during code reviews.
- Explore and evaluate design alternatives.
- Contribute to technical design documents.
- Identify dependencies across teams and components.
- Ensure designs address performance, scalability, resiliency and cost requirements.
- Create test strategies and test plans that prevent regressions.
- Cover security invariants and negative test cases.
- Close testing coverage gaps and leverage AI for test automation.
- Automate build and deployment processes toward zero-touch deployment.
- Follow safe deployment and rollback practices.
- Run experiments using feature flags and measure their impact.
- Participate in on-call support as a DRI.
- Mitigate production incidents within SLA using least-privilege access.
- Conduct retrospectives and implement repair actions.
- Improve telemetry, monitoring and troubleshooting guidance.
- Software Engineer 2 engineers are expected to contribute to technical design rather than only implement predefined tasks. This includes evaluating different design approaches and helping document technical decisions.
- Designs should consider performance, scalability, resiliency and cost. Engineers must also recognize dependencies that cross team or component boundaries.
- The role includes ownership of the test strategy for assigned work. Engineers are expected to create tests that prevent regressions and cover security-related conditions and negative scenarios.
- Another responsibility is identifying and closing coverage gaps. AI can be used to help automate testing, but the engineer remains responsible for the resulting quality.
- As a live-site engineer, the candidate may serve as a Directly Responsible Individual (DRI) during production incidents. This means taking ownership of incident response and coordinating the necessary actions to restore service.
- The role emphasizes least-privilege access when handling production incidents, as well as post-incident retrospectives and repair actions. Improving telemetry, monitoring and troubleshooting documentation is also part of the responsibility.
Skills & Eligibility
- Candidates should have a strong technical background in software engineering and meet the minimum experience requirement specified by Microsoft.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field.
- 2+ years of technical engineering experience involving coding.
- Programming experience in one or more languages including C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript or Python.
- Equivalent experience can also satisfy the minimum qualification.
- Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field with 3+ years of technical engineering experience.
- Or a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field with 5+ years of technical engineering experience.
- Equivalent experience may also be considered.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field.
- 2+ years of technical engineering experience involving coding.
- Programming experience in one or more languages including C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript or Python.
- Equivalent experience can also satisfy the minimum qualification.
- Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field with 3+ years of technical engineering experience.
- Or a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field with 5+ years of technical engineering experience.
- Equivalent experience may also be considered.
- Candidates must be able to meet applicable Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements.
- The position specifically requires candidates to pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire or transfer and every two years thereafter.
- Software architecture
- Design patterns and coding practices
- Secure software development
- Unit and automated testing
- Version-controlled collaborative development
- Deployment automation
- Production troubleshooting
- Candidates should have a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field, or equivalent experience.
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