Microsoft

Principal Software Engineer

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Bengaluru, IndiaStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Drive innovation and deliver software at scale while meeting reliability, security, compliance, performance, and cost requirements.
  • Provide architectural guidance and mentorship across teams and advance engineering practices through coding, testing, design, observability, and operations.
  • Design reusable platform-first products, services, tools, and extensible code with attention to maintainability and operational impact.
  • Serve as technical lead for multiple initiatives spanning architecture, design, implementation, validation, deployment, and operationalization.
  • Partner with teams, customers, and technical leaders to resolve dependencies and trade-offs and execute long-term infrastructure strategy.
  • Influence relevant open-source projects, evaluate technologies, and share engineering knowledge with broader communities.
  • Lead debugging, incident learning, deployment automation, security hardening, and telemetry improvements for complex infrastructure systems.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field and 6+ years of technical engineering experience with coding, or equivalent experience.
  • Coding experience in languages including C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python.
  • Preferred: Master's degree and 8+ years of technical engineering experience, or bachelor's degree and 12+ years of experience, or equivalent experience.
  • Experience providing architectural or technical leadership across multiple complex engineering initiatives.
  • Experience designing, building, and operating large-scale distributed systems, databases, or client-server architectures.
  • Experience architecting data infrastructure, Infrastructure as a Service, AI infrastructure, storage, graph, compute, or platform systems.
  • Experience influencing open-source projects or participating in open-source project management and governance.
  • Successful completion of Microsoft Cloud Background Check and Microsoft Background Check.
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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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