Microsoft

Principal Software Engineer

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3 days ago
Hyderābād, IndiaStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Define and evolve architectures for distributed, multi-tenant testing services while balancing reliability, performance, security, operability, and cost.
  • Lead complex initiatives from design and prototyping through implementation, rollout, and sustained operation while remaining hands-on with coding and reviews.
  • Build scalable execution and orchestration for load testing and managed browser automation, including scheduling, concurrency, isolation, and resilient failure handling.
  • Develop developer-friendly APIs, tooling, and CI/CD integrations for testing and release workflows.
  • Advance AI-assisted testing through evaluation, observability, safeguards, and quality measures.
  • Drive live-site excellence through telemetry, service-level objectives, incident response, root-cause analysis, and on-call participation.
  • Embed security, privacy, accessibility, and responsible AI into service design, including identity, access control, and customer test-data protection.
  • Partner with product, engineering, architecture, security, and customer stakeholders to set priorities and deliver platform capabilities.
  • Mentor engineers and improve practices for testing, deployment safety, serviceability, and developer productivity.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related technical discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
  • 10+ years of experience designing, building, and operating production software, including technical leadership on complex initiatives across multiple components or teams.
  • Strong software engineering skills in one or more of C#, Java, C++, Go, Python, or TypeScript, with experience in maintainable design, automated testing, and code review.
  • Deep understanding of distributed systems, service architecture, API design, concurrency, fault tolerance, and performance engineering.
  • Experience operating cloud services and diagnosing complex production issues using telemetry, debugging, and structured root-cause analysis.
  • Ability to lead through influence, explain architectural trade-offs, collaborate across disciplines, and mentor engineers.
  • Customer-focused approach and commitment to secure, reliable, and inclusive engineering.
  • Preferred experience with Azure or comparable cloud platforms, containerized workloads, Kubernetes, and multi-tenant service infrastructure.
  • Preferred experience with Playwright, browser automation, end-to-end testing, JMeter, Locust, or comparable performance-testing frameworks.
  • Preferred experience building developer platforms, SDKs, command-line tools, or integrations with GitHub, Azure DevOps, and CI/CD systems.
  • Preferred experience with cloud resource efficiency, execution scheduling, service scalability, infrastructure cost optimization, AI-assisted developer tools, agentic workflows, or open-source technologies.
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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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