Job Overview

Microsoft is hiring a Senior Software Engineer in Hyderabad for the GitHub Enterprise Server release team. This role focuses on the engineering systems that help GitHub Enterprise Server produce, validate, certify, and deliver reliable software artifacts to enterprise customers worldwide.

The position sits at the center of the GHES release lifecycle. You will work on operating system images, containers, appliance artifacts, package generation, certification workflows, integration test environments, and release infrastructure. The role also involves distributing GHES artifacts through major cloud platforms including Azure, AWS, and GCP.

This is a strong opportunity for an experienced software engineer who enjoys production engineering, release automation, distributed systems, troubleshooting, and improving engineering reliability. You will work with platform, infrastructure, release, and product teams to identify problems early, simplify delivery processes, strengthen observability, and improve confidence in every release.

Key Responsibilities

• Own and improve systems used to create GHES operating system images, containers, and appliance artifacts across platform, infrastructure, and application layers.
• Design, maintain, and enhance release pipelines responsible for package generation, validation, and certification.
• Build and operate integration testing environments that support continuous and reliable validation of GHES.
• Improve continuous integration quality by increasing test reliability, strengthening issue detection, and helping teams triage and resolve failures.
• Support publication and distribution of GHES release artifacts through Azure, AWS, and GCP.
• Work with engineering teams across platform, infrastructure, release, and product functions to improve release readiness and troubleshooting.
• Perform root-cause analysis for build, testing, certification, and package delivery problems.
• Improve release workflows through automation, observability, repeatability, security, and compliance practices.
• Lead technical improvements that reduce release complexity and increase engineering productivity.
• Support the complete release lifecycle, from build creation and package generation through validation, certification, and customer delivery.
• Provide operational support for release infrastructure and investigate critical production issues affecting software delivery.

Required Skills

Candidates should have substantial professional software engineering experience and a proven record of maintaining and delivering production software. For the Senior Software Engineer level, the posting specifies 7 or more years of relevant experience. Strong programming experience in one or more languages such as C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Go, Ruby, Rust, or Python is required.

Experience building and operating production CI/CD or release pipelines for complex distributed systems is important. Candidates should also understand Linux-based environments, containers, software packaging, and artifact delivery.

The role requires strong troubleshooting ability across multiple layers of a software stack. Applicants should be comfortable investigating build failures, test failures, release problems, and infrastructure issues and then developing durable fixes rather than relying only on short-term workarounds.

Preferred Skills

Strong candidates will have experience improving engineering systems through automation, observability, and process simplification. Experience working across teams and improving release readiness is valuable.

Practical knowledge of cloud-based artifact distribution is relevant because GHES release artifacts are delivered through Azure, AWS, and GCP. Candidates who have worked with complex distributed systems, release infrastructure, integration testing, packaging, and production operations may be particularly well suited to this opportunity.

Education

Microsoft accepts several education and experience combinations for this role. These include an Associate's, Bachelor's, Master's, or Doctorate degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, or a related technical field, along with the corresponding professional experience specified in the posting. Equivalent experience may also be considered.

Experience

For the Senior Software Engineer level, the stated requirement is 7 or more years of experience in software engineering, computer science, or a related technical discipline with proven production software development experience.

The posting also describes alternate pathways: an Associate's degree with 5 or more years of relevant experience, a Bachelor's degree with 4 or more years, a Master's degree with 2 or more years, a Doctorate in a relevant field, or equivalent experience. The specific pathway should be assessed against the candidate's background.

Required Technologies

• C
• C++
• C#
• Java
• JavaScript
• Go
• Ruby
• Rust
• Python
• Linux
• Containers
• CI/CD
• Release Pipelines
• Software Packaging
• Artifact Delivery
• Integration Testing
• Distributed Systems
• Azure
• AWS
• GCP
• Observability
• Automation

Soft Skills

This position requires strong analytical and problem-solving skills because release engineers must identify failures, understand their underlying causes, and improve systems so similar issues are less likely to recur.

Communication and collaboration are also important. The engineer will work with multiple engineering groups and must be able to explain technical problems, coordinate investigations, and help teams reach practical solutions.

A strong ownership mindset is useful for this role. Senior engineers are expected to take responsibility for production systems, lead technical improvements, respond to critical issues, and contribute to reliable customer delivery.

Benefits of Working in this Role

The role provides practical exposure to the engineering systems behind GitHub Enterprise Server and its worldwide enterprise delivery process. Engineers can work across software build systems, CI/CD, containers, integration testing, cloud distribution, release certification, observability, and production operations.

The position also provides opportunities to deepen technical leadership by owning release infrastructure, driving engineering improvements, collaborating across teams, and solving complex problems involving multiple layers of a software system.

Work Mode

The position requires 3 days per week in the office. The Microsoft listing identifies the work site as Hyderabad with an in-office schedule of three days each week, making this a hybrid work opportunity.

Location

Hyderabad, Telangana, India.

Who Should Apply

This opportunity is suitable for Senior Software Engineers, Release Engineers, DevOps Engineers, Build and Infrastructure Engineers, Platform Engineers, Software Reliability Engineers, and experienced developers who have worked with production release systems.

Candidates with strong programming experience plus CI/CD, Linux, containers, distributed systems, software packaging, integration testing, cloud platforms, and production troubleshooting should consider applying.

Career Growth

This role can help experienced engineers expand into senior technical ownership across release engineering, platform infrastructure, distributed systems, reliability, and software delivery. Leading technical investments and working across multiple engineering teams can strengthen architecture, operational excellence, and technical leadership skills.

The position also offers the opportunity to develop deeper expertise in production software delivery and enterprise software release processes while working with large-scale GitHub Enterprise Server infrastructure.

Application Advice

Tailor your resume to demonstrate production engineering impact rather than listing technologies alone. Highlight the release pipelines, CI/CD systems, distributed applications, Linux environments, container platforms, and automation solutions you have built or maintained.

Include measurable examples of improving release reliability, reducing failure rates, accelerating delivery, strengthening observability, simplifying operational processes, or resolving complex production issues. Mention the programming languages you use professionally and describe how they were applied to production systems.

If you have experience with Azure, AWS, GCP, integration testing, software packaging, artifact distribution, or enterprise release infrastructure, make those details easy to find. Also highlight cross-team collaboration, root-cause analysis, technical ownership, and operational support.

The listing states that applications are accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled and that the position will be open for a minimum of five days. Candidates should review the official Microsoft posting for the latest application status.