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Principal Software Engineer

Microsoft

Listed 23 Oct 2026

HyderabadSoftware EngineeringTop payGCC
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Building a successful team involves creating an inclusive workplace where all people and ideas are welcome. Partners with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a set of scenarios. Leads identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for a product, application, service, or platform. Leads by example and mentors' others to produce extensible and maintainable code used across products. Leverages subject-matter expertise of cross-product features with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project managers) to drive multiple group's project plans, release plans, and work items. Holds accountability as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI), mentoring engineers across products/solutions, working on-call to monitor system/product/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions. Proactively seeks new knowledge and adapts to new trends, technical solutions, and patterns that will improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while also driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale and shares knowledge with other engineers. Shapes how the team works in the age of AI by championing responsible AI-assisted engineering practices, driving adoption across the development lifecycle, and measuring improvements in developer productivity, quality, learning, and delivery speed. Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python. OR equivalent experience. These requirements include but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings: Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science. OR related technical field AND 10+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python. OR Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python. Understanding of GitHub Copilot will be an added advantage. Native Android/iOS/Windows/macOS experiences using modern C++, Java, Kotlin, Objective-C, Swift and platform-specific frameworks OR equivalent experience.