# Senior Software Engineer - Cloud Infra

OverviewThe Cosmic team in M365 Core IDC builds the hyperscale cloud infrastructure that powers Microsoft 365 services, including M365 Copilot, WorkIQ, IC3, and many other mission-critical experiences. Our mission is to enable teams across M365 to deliver innovation faster with the reliability, safety, and scale required by a global cloud platform. At the core of our work is COSMIC, Microsoft's managed container platform for cloud services. We build and operate the platform at hyperscale, enabling thousands of Microsoft 365 services to innovate, deploy, and operate faster with built-in reliability, safety, and operational excellence. Our team drives some of Microsoft's most complex infrastructure investments across deployments, capacity management, networking, storage, security, reliability, and efficiency, solving deep engineering challenges at global scale. We have also conceived and built foundational technologies including the COSMIC Linux Platform, M365 OneBranch Deployment Platform, SDP Infrastructure, and Policy Hub, now broadly adopted across the Experiences + Devices (E+D) organization. Our culture is built on innovation, ownership, collaboration, and continuous learning,

- **Id**: 4064023
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/microsoft-senior-software-engineer-cloud-infra>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Hyderabad, India, Noida, India
- **Countries**: IN
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 7
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-10-30T15:56:16Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-11
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-11T10:13:18Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 11
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 5483
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Continuous learning
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Cloud Platforms (IaaS & PaaS), Office & Productivity Software, Gaming Consoles, Developer Tools

## Company

- **Id**: 18
- **Name**: Microsoft
- **Domain**: microsoft.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/microsoft>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Eightfold

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 85
- **Open postings**: 487
- **Ghost share**: 0.006
- **Stale share**: 0.563
- **Repost share**: 0.047
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 29
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T05:49:22Z

## Technologies

- **C#** — Optional: no
- **C++** — Optional: no
- **Copilot** — Optional: no
- **JavaScript** — Optional: no
- **Linux** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 11

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 7
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: yes

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-11T10:13:18Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 77
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.856
- **P room**: 0.9
- **Age days**: 11
- **Expected fill days**: 29
- **Reasons**: conf:0, win:mid, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T11:06:17Z

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