Senior Platform Engineer
MicrosoftHyderabadremote$138K–$235KDataPosted 16d ago · Aug 29, 2026
Microsoft is hiring a senior platform engineer to work on infrastructure for cloud, productivity software and the largest enterprise ai distribution channel.
What you would own
- Operate the platform that every product team deploys onto.
- Drive down incident rate and cost per unit of served traffic.
- Automate the manual work out of the deployment path.
Skills
KubernetesTerraformAWSAzureC#RustNetworkingCost optimisation
What Agraph knows about Microsoft
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Employees
228K
+1.4% 90d
Open roles
4,120
+12% 30d
Remote share
31%
Activity score
91
0–100
Compensation
AI Engineer pay at Microsoft up 14% year over year
Median posted compensation for ai engineer roles moved from about $201K to $230K across 640 observed postings and reports.
AI Engineer median$230K+14%/ 12 months
Pay moving this fast usually signals a supply shortage rather than a general raise.
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