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Microsoft
Full time
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10/13/2026
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Hyderābād, India

Responsibilities

Define technical strategy and architecture for Windows Fundamentals backend services, telemetry systems, data pipelines, metrics, cohort frameworks, and diagnostics.
Design scalable systems for telemetry ingestion, transformation, orchestration, storage, monitoring, analytics, diagnostics, and automated engineering workflows.
Set standards for reliability, security, compliance, privacy, observability, data quality, schema evolution, deployment safety, incident response, and operational excellence.
Lead complex cross-system investigations involving large-scale telemetry, statistical analysis, systems debugging, service behavior, and Windows product-health signals.
Create architectural simplifications, automation, and AI-assisted capabilities to detect issues earlier and reduce operational toil.
Use data, customer insights, and business priorities to evaluate tradeoffs, manage technical risk, and drive measurable outcomes.
Serve as a technical authority, mentor senior engineers, lead design reviews, and influence engineering, data science, security, silicon, OEM, and service partners.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field and 10+ years of technical engineering experience with coding in C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python, or equivalent experience.
Extensive experience architecting and delivering backend services, distributed systems, data pipelines, telemetry platforms, large-scale analytics, or engineering infrastructure.
Demonstrated success leading complex multi-team technical initiatives and delivering highly reliable production systems or platforms at scale.
Deep technical judgment in service architecture, systems design, data engineering, security, reliability, debugging, and engineering tradeoffs.
Strong programming and hands-on problem-solving skills across architecture, implementation, investigation, and operational response.
Ability to set technical strategy, navigate ambiguity, prioritize data-informed investments, and influence across organizational boundaries without direct authority.
Deep experience with cloud services, distributed systems, data engineering, telemetry platforms, developer infrastructure, or business-critical production operations.
Knowledge of Windows Fundamentals, Windows internals, reliability engineering, performance analysis, power efficiency, or system-level diagnostics.
Experience designing secure and compliant services with observability, deployment controls, data-quality practices, live-site response, and operational accountability.
Experience defining organizational metrics, cohorts, baselines, and measurement strategies using telemetry, experimentation, statistical analysis, or Azure data platforms.
Track record of influencing architecture and product strategy, applying automation or AI to engineering workflows, mentoring senior engineers, and collaborating with executive and senior technical stakeholders.
Ability to meet Microsoft, customer, and/or government security screening requirements, including the Microsoft Cloud Background Check.

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