Microsoft

Principal Software Engineer

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6 days ago
Bengaluru, IndiaStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Own architecture for deeply complex products and solutions while evaluating design trade-offs and aligning decisions with business and platform outcomes.
  • Drive architecture, design, implementation, validation, deployment, and operationalization across multiple large-scale initiatives.
  • Design reusable platform products, services, tools, and extensible code that satisfy performance, scalability, resiliency, disaster recovery, security, compliance, and cost requirements.
  • Establish coding, testing, architecture, and operational standards and provide technical leadership and mentorship.
  • Lead cross-product debugging, verification, telemetry, incident learning, repair actions, and automation for zero-touch deployment and recurrence prevention.
  • Align teams, customers, and technical leaders around dependencies, trade-offs, commitments, and long-term infrastructure vision.
  • Influence open-source projects and industry practices while advancing security, privacy, safety, and compliance.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in computer science or a related technical field and 8+ years of technical engineering experience with coding, or equivalent experience.
  • Preferred qualifications include a master's degree with 12+ years of experience, or a bachelor's degree with 15+ years of experience, or equivalent experience.
  • Experience providing architecture and technical leadership for large-scale distributed systems, databases, analytics systems, or platform products.
  • Experience influencing business-aligned technical decisions and cross-functional and senior technical leadership.
  • Experience with Java, C++, or Rust and concepts including query execution, indexing, concurrency, distributed algorithms, or data structures.
  • Experience influencing open-source projects or participating in open-source project management and governance.
  • Experience building interactive services, analytics interfaces, data infrastructure, compute infrastructure, or other large-scale platform systems.
  • 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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