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Principal Software Engineer

Microsoft

Microsoft

Software Engineering
Hyderabad, Telangana, India
Posted on Jan 30, 2026
Overview
We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced full-stack Principal Software Engineer to join our Titan – data analysis and visualization platform team in Microsoft AI org. The ideal candidate will have a strong expertise in building reliable, distributed systems and a proven track record of building large scale data analysis platforms.
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.


Responsibilities
  • Own and deliver complete features, including design, architecture, implementation, testability, debugging, and shipping.
  • Collaborate with Product Managers, Architects and stakeholders across geo.
  • Build, mentor, and lead a diverse high-performance team of Software Engineers.
  • Create clarity, generate energy and deliver the impact.
  • Leading Design, Code reviews to ensure consistently high level of design and implementation.
  • Strong Live Site focus and operational excellence.
  • Ensure teams engineering strategy is aligned with organization goals and best practices are followed.
  • Deliver high-quality cloud-based solutions in an agile methodology.
  • Setting up engineering strategy for the team both from technical and business front.
  • Ensuring that all programs are delivered with agreed upon business value, on time and highest quality.
  • Ensuring that all features embody engineering best practices, efficient, scalable architecture, elegant design and high-quality implementation.
  • Ensuring compliance with Security, Accessibility, GDPR etc. and performance criteria.
  • Lead the team in adopting relevant new technologies, tools, methods and processes from Microsoft and industry.
  • Use data and insights from customer and production to contribute to some technical design and implementation decisions.


Qualifications
  • 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 equivalent experience.
  • 5+ years of building reliable, distributed systems at scale.
  • Proven experience with web technologies: React, Python, XHTML/HTML5, CSS, jQuery.
  • Experience in micro-services, NoSQL database, Messaging queues etc.
  • Great problem solving and analytical skills.
  • Well versed with DevOps practices.
  • Excellent communicator, capable of building and maintaining relationships with various Microsoft teams.
  • Related experiences building data analysis and visualization platforms.

This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.




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 with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.