# Principal Software Engineer

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

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## Description

The Windows team at Microsoft is building a Centre of Excellence in India, focusing on services for creating new signature and personalised experiences. As a Principal Software Engineer, you will lead multiple teams and partner with Windows and services teams globally to build and deploy cutting-edge technologies.

Responsibilities:

- Lead high-caliber Software Engineers, ensuring project excellence and technical leadership.

- Collaborate with customers, partners, product management, and engineering teams to influence and align the product vision.

- Drive the adoption and practical application of AI across product features and engineering productivity.

- Deliver high-quality results with full ownership.

- Foster a culture of engineering excellence, customer focus, collaboration, and diversity and inclusion.

- Hire and develop top talent.

Qualifications:

- Bachelor's or Master's Degree in Computer Science or related field.

- 12+ or 10+ years of technical engineering experience with coding in languages like C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python.

- 6+ years of experience designing, building, and shipping distributed software services for Web applications and cloud services at scale.

- Experience with modern tech stacks like React, Redis, Kubernetes, Azure.

- Solid design, coding, debugging, teamwork, partnership, and communication skills.

- Expertise in ML concepts and algorithms, along with a deep understanding of LLM usage patterns and agentic frameworks.

## Skills

### Required
- C
- C++
- C#
- Java
- JavaScript
- Python
- React
- Redis
- Kubernetes
- Azure
- Machine Learning

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