# Principal Software Engineer

**Company**: Microsoft
**Location**: Noida, India
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology
**Ticker**: MSFT
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2283

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## 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 data systems.

- Experience with CI/CD pipelines, version control systems (e.g., Git), and build tools.

Preferred Qualifications:

- Experience with AdTech is a big plus.

- Experience building high-throughput, low-latency, or mission-critical services.

- Deep knowledge of Azure or other hyperscale cloud platforms.

- Experience with data-intensive systems, machine learning platforms, or large marketplaces.

- Track record of leading major architectural initiatives or platform transformations.

- Solid written and verbal communication skills, including technical design documentation.

- A collaborative team player with curiosity, a growth mindset, and a solid sense of responsibility.

- Exposure to AI/ML concepts and practical application of AI tools to solve modern engineering challenges.

## Skills

### Required
- C
- C++
- C#
- Java
- JavaScript
- Python
- SQL
- Kafka
- Hadoop
- Hive
- cloud expertise
- AI
- microservices
- data pipelines
- CI/CD pipelines
- Git

### Nice to have
- AdTech
- high-throughput services
- low-latency services
- mission-critical services
- Azure
- hyperscale cloud platforms
- data-intensive systems
- machine learning platforms
- large marketplaces
- AI/ML concepts

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