Principal Software Engineer

Microsoft — Hyderabad, TS, IN

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Overview
As a Principal Software Engineer do you enjoy solving problems, looking at problems through a different lens, and working closely with customers to innovate new solutions to complex problems? Do you jump with excitement at the opportunity to identify trends and provide unique business solutions? Do you want to join a team where learning about a new technology or solution is part of our work every day?

Responsibilities
- Collaborates with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a scenario. 

Drives identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for a product, application, service, or platform. 

Creates, implements, optimizes, debugs, refactors, and reuses code to establish and improve performance and maintainability, effectiveness, and return on investment ROI. 

Leverages subject-matter expertise of product features and partners with appropriate stakeholders e.g., project managers to drive a workgroup's project plans, release plans, and work items. 

Acts as a Designated Responsible Individual DRI and guides other engineers by developing and following the playbook, working on call to monitor system/product/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions, alerting stakeholders about status and initiates actions to restore system/product/service for simple and complex problems when appropriate. 

Proactively seeks new knowledge and adapts to new trends, technical solutions, and patterns that will improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while also driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale. 

Qualifications
 .      Bachelor and/or Graduate degree in computer science, engineering or equivalent 
·        Experience: 10+ years of professional development. 
·        Technical Stack: C++, C#, big data, ML, NLP, and search technologies. 
·        Focus Areas: Strong analytical skills, customer engagement, and cross-functional collaboration. 
·        Familiarity with Microsoft Cloud Services Azure, Entra, O365. 
·        Security awareness penetration testing, threat analysis. 
Other Requirements  
Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings: Microsoft Cloud Background Check:   
This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.  

Preferred/Additional Qualifications  
·        You should self-identify as a technical software engineer with a passion for cloud technologies and AI 
·        Previous experience as a Software Developer Engineer 
·        Track record of working closely with agile and diverse engineering teams 




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