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Principal Software Engineer

Microsoft

Microsoft

Software Engineering
Posted on Oct 14, 2025

Principal Software Engineer

Hyderabad, Telangana, India

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Date posted
Oct 13, 2025
Job number
1885442
Work site
3 days / week in-office
Travel
0-25 %
Role type
Individual Contributor
Profession
Software Engineering
Discipline
Software Engineering
Employment type
Full-Time

Overview

Security represents the most critical priorities for our customers in a world awash in digital threats, regulatory scrutiny, and estate complexity. Microsoft Security aspires to make the world a safer place for all. We want to reshape security and empower every user, customer, and developer with a security cloud that protects them with end to end, simplified solutions. The Microsoft Security organization accelerates Microsoft’s mission and bold ambitions to ensure that our company and industry is securing digital technology platforms, devices, and clouds in our customers’ heterogeneous environments, as well as ensuring the security of our own internal estate. Our culture is centered on embracing a growth mindset, a theme of inspiring excellence, and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day. In doing so, we create life-changing innovations that impact billions of lives around the world.

The Consumption Billing team in purview builds at scale components enabling pay as you go billing for multiple Purview solutions. This is an at scale infra capability with 6 9s of reliability. We build components that enable the smooth flow and aggregation of billing events as well as purview solution reporting, estimators to ensure that customers can clearly understand their own usage and value they are deriving from the various capabilities. As a principal engineer in this team, you will be responsible for defining this high scale reliable architecture and ensuring that various solution teams can quickly onboard and derive value with as less

Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

Qualifications

Required/Minimym qualifications

  • Expertise/Experience- Solid understanding of Object-Oriented Programming and common Design Patterns
  • 10+ years of relevant software development experience and proficient in C# (Java or C++)
  • Ability to communicate technical details clearly across organizational boundaries.
  • Experience in DevOps to maintain live services and\or application frameworks.
  • Cloud and services experience, with Azure cloud experience highly desirable.
  • Analytical skills with systematic and structured approach to software design.
  • Experience with CI/CD pipeline using agile practices
  • Ability to quickly ramp up on multiple technology areas

Essential qualifications - BS or MS degree in Computer Science or Engineering OR equivalent years of work experience.

Responsibilities

We are looking for fast learning, highly motivated, creative and analytical software engineers to lead the design all up for this product area. In addition to strong technical skills, you should have a passion for innovation, collaboration and software quality.You will be expected to leverage AI tools to operate in a highly efficient and effective manner and drive the AI adoption within the team.

Responsibilities include:

  • You will be responsible to perform investigations and investments in complex areas; designing and delivering features end to end - including system architecture, code, deployment, scale, performance and quality, from conception to delivery.
  • Design and implement scalable, reliable, maintainable services
  • Demonstrate strategic understanding of the timing and rationale for design choices, within the scope of work.
  • Consistently contribute key ideas to the product or service design and vision that meets the customer's needs
  • Drive design reviews across the team and apply expertise in available technologies
  • Apply metrics to drive the quality and stability of code

Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.
Industry leading healthcare
Educational resources
Discounts on products and services
Savings and investments
Maternity and paternity leave
Generous time away
Giving programs
Opportunities to network and connect

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.