Principal Software Engineer Job at Microsoft Corporation (Hyderabad)

Principal Software Engineer

Microsoft Corporation

Location:
India , Hyderabad

Category:
IT - Software Development

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Job Description:

We are dynamic team focused on securing cutting-edge AI and cloud technologies in a rapidly evolving threat landscape. We are leading new initiatives and research projects across AI Security, Identity Protection, and SaaS Defense. Our teams are dedicated to building cutting-edge Cyber Defense solutions, leveraging state-of-the-art cloud technologies, big data, AI, and modern UX platforms to deliver unparalleled value to our customers. As part of our team, you'll collaborate with software engineers, program managers, and security researchers to develop solutions that protect, detect, and respond to evolving cybersecurity threats. We value diversity and believe that different experiences and perspectives make our team stronger.

Job Responsibility:

Technical Direction & Architecture: Define and drive end‑to‑end architecture for services and features, ensuring scalability, resilience, observability, and security at global scale. Design and Code the solutions to build highly scalable, secure and reliable systems
Technical Leadership & Mentorship: Guide and mentor engineers
set high engineering standards
review designs and code
foster a culture of quality, inclusion, and continuous improvement
Design & Code Reviews: Provide rigorous design reviews and code feedback to improve performance, reliability, and secure-by-default practices
Cross‑functional Collaboration: Partner with Product Management, Design, and Engineering Leadership to align roadmaps, make trade‑offs, and deliver customer-centric outcomes
Operational Excellence: Champion best practices in CI/CD, rollout strategies, incident response, post‑mortems, and data‑driven decision making
Security & Compliance: Embed threat modeling, secure coding, and privacy-by-design into development workflows
ensure compliance with enterprise and regulatory requirements

Requirements:

Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Computer Science or related technical field
13+ years of hands-on engineering experience and a proven track record of delivering large-scale, high-impact solutions
Deep expertise in distributed systems, security platforms, and coding in languages such as C, C++, C, Java, or Python
Experience in organizational and technical leadership, architecting cloud services, and driving product innovation and developer productivity with AI
Proficiency in Azure Cloud, and modern security protocols
Experience with Azure services (compute, networking, storage, identity), Dataverse, and integration patterns across platform
Hands‑on ownership of observability stacks (telemetry, tracing, alerting) and performance engineering at scale
Experience collaborating with compliance, governance, and security teams for enterprise-grade releases., with a strong understanding of system-level or mobile application development

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
February 10, 2026

Employment Type:

Fulltime

Work Type:

Hybrid work

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