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title: Principal Software Engineer
description: We're seeking a Principal Software Engineer to join our Content Engineering team, focusing on architecting, building, and maintaining next-generation platforms for real-time data delivery that power Microsoft's multi-billion-dollar advertising business. Responsibilities: Define and drive the technical vision and architecture for large-scale, complex systems, ensuring scalability, reliability, security, and cost efficiency. Contribute hands-on to core code, complex implementations, and production issue resolution. Influence and align multiple teams and stakeholders across organisations through solid technical leadership. Partner with Product Management and leadership to translate business goals into robust technical solutions. Mentor engineers, raise the technical bar, and promote a culture of engineering excellence. Use AI tools and techniques to enhance engineering workflows, automate processes, and unlock new capabilities. Continuously refine data pipelines and system architecture to improve performance, reliability, and cost efficiency. Collaborate with Ads and Bing teams to enable new scenarios, integrate shared infrastructure, and deliver unified solutions. Provide production support by fixing bugs and resolving live-site issues to ensure system availability and reliability. Qualifications: Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 10+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python. Solid SQL expertise, Kafka, Hadoop, Hive and product development experience including memory management, multithreading, and performance optimisation, cloud expertise, AI. Proven experience designing and operating distributed, cloud-based systems at scale. Ability to influence without authority and drive alignment across multiple teams. Solid expertise in system architecture, data structures, algorithms, and software design patterns. Experience with microservices, data pipelines, or large d…
date posted: 2026-08-01T16:01:07.582Z
valid through: 2026-09-30T16:01:07.582Z
direct apply: false
occupational category: Engineering
industry: Technology
skills: C
skills: C++
skills: C#
skills: Java
skills: JavaScript
skills: Python
skills: SQL
skills: Kafka
skills: Hadoop
skills: Hive
skills: cloud expertise
skills: AI
skills: microservices
skills: data pipelines
skills: CI/CD pipelines
skills: Git
skills: AdTech
skills: high-throughput services
skills: low-latency services
skills: mission-critical services
skills: Azure
skills: hyperscale cloud platforms
skills: data-intensive systems
skills: machine learning platforms
skills: large marketplaces
skills: AI/ML concepts
hiring organization: Microsoft
  type: Organization
  ticker symbol: MSFT
  founding date: 1975
  number of employees: QuantitativeValue
    value: 228000
job location: Place
  address: PostalAddress
    address locality: Noida
    address region: India
    address country: IN
employment type: FULL_TIME