Microsoft

Principal Software Engineer

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4 days ago
Hyderābād, IndiaStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Determine user requirements with stakeholders and lead dependencies, design documents, project plans, release plans, and work items across products and services.
  • Build high-performance client, full-stack, and Azure-hosted backend experiences supporting millions of users and hundreds of millions of daily requests.
  • Provide technical vision and hands-on leadership while driving architectural and organizational transformation across the stack.
  • Lead by example, produce extensible and maintainable code, and mentor engineers across products and solutions.
  • Serve as a Designated Responsible Individual, participate in on-call operations, and improve availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, monitoring, and performance.
  • Lead experimentation and use product data to inform release and customer adoption decisions.
  • Champion responsible AI-assisted engineering practices and measure their impact on productivity, quality, learning, and delivery.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field and at least 6 years of technical engineering experience with coding, or equivalent experience.
  • Experience coding in languages including C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python.
  • Ability to meet Microsoft, customer, and government security screening requirements, including the Microsoft Cloud background check.
  • Preferred: bachelor's degree in Computer Science, or a related technical field with 10+ years of experience, or a master's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field with 8+ years of experience.
  • Preferred: understanding of GitHub Copilot and experience with product-led growth, experimentation platforms, product analytics, instrumentation, or activation and adoption funnels.
  • Preferred: experience with Microsoft 365 or Copilot scenarios and native Android, iOS, Windows, or macOS experiences using modern C++, Java, Kotlin, Objective-C, Swift, and platform-specific frameworks.

Tech Stack

AzureCC#C++GraphQLiOSJavaJavaScriptKotlinmacOS.NETObjective-CPythonReactSwiftTypeScriptWindows

Categories

Full StackGrowth Engineering
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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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