Microsoft

Principal Software Engineer - OS Internals

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Bengaluru, India or Hyderābād, IndiaStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Develop and execute strategy for improving protection and innovation delivery to in-market Windows devices.
  • Lead engineering deliverables affecting billions of Windows customers and collaborate with executives, product engineering, security services, and business units.
  • Provide technical leadership for requirements, dependencies, design documents, software quality, and development teams.
  • Develop and enhance Windows Update Platform features and the Windows update stack.
  • Reproduce, debug, and fix customer-reported problems while minimizing application compatibility risk.
  • Collaborate with escalation engineers and global partner teams to debug, develop, test, and ship updates.
  • Improve products, tools, and processes and mentor engineers on the team.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related technical field and 6+ years of technical engineering experience, or equivalent experience.
  • Experience coding in languages including C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python.
  • Preferred: 15+ years of experience building and shipping production-grade software products.
  • Preferred: experience with OS internals, system programming, Windows system-level programming, and C or C++.
  • Preferred: experience debugging server-side, multithreaded, and highly scalable applications and working with complex software engineering projects.
  • Preferred: strong software development, problem-solving, communication, cross-functional collaboration, and geographically distributed team experience.

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About Microsoft

10,000+ employees

Microsoft develops operating systems, productivity software, cloud services, developer tools, and consumer devices for individuals, enterprises, and governments. Its main products include Windows, Microsoft 365, Azure, Visual Studio/GitHub, Xbox, and LinkedIn; revenue comes from software subscriptions and licenses, cloud consumption, hardware sales, and advertising. Founded in 1975 and headquartered in Redmond, Washington, Microsoft is a public company traded on Nasdaq.

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