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:

Bing Sports builds experiences for live scores, schedules, standings, news, and sports knowledge across Bing. As a Principal Software Engineer, you will set technical direction and deliver high-scale, low-latency services and experiences, partnering with product, data science, design, and engineering teams. You’ll be a hands-on leader who drives architecture, raises quality, mentors engineers, and ensures reliability and operational. Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond. Starting January 26, 2026, Microsoft AI (MAI) employees who live within a 50-mile commute of a designated Microsoft office in the U.S. or 25-mile commute of a non-U.S., country-specific location are expected to work from the office at least four days per week. This expectation is subject to local law and may vary by jurisdiction.

Job Responsibility:

Lead end-to-end design and delivery for Bing Sports components (APIs, services, pipelines, integrations) from concept to production and sustainment
Define architecture for scalable distributed systems
set SLOs/SLIs
build observability and on-call readiness
Set engineering standards and lead design/code reviews for security, reliability, performance, testing, and maintainability
Partner with PM to translate customer needs into technical roadmaps and investment sequencing (features, platform, tech debt)
Build and improve sports data ingestion/normalization with data quality, provenance, and monitoring
Improve answer quality via experimentation and evaluation
collaborate with data science on model/service integration
Optimize latency and cost through performance tuning, caching, and storage/indexing choices
Drive cross-team integrations with shared platforms (identity, compliance, experimentation, knowledge/content systems)
Mentor engineers and set a high bar for operational ownership and craftsmanship
Serve as an escalation point for incidents
lead RCA and drive preventative fixes

Requirements:

BS in CS/Engineering (or equivalent experience)
10+ years building and shipping production services at scale
Strong coding in C#, Java, C++, Go, and/or Python
comfortable in multi-language codebases
Hands-on distributed systems experience (storage, caching, consistency, failure modes, capacity planning)
Cloud-native engineering (e.g., Azure), CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, and secure engineering practices
Proven technical leadership through influence: architecture decisions, stakeholder alignment, mentorship
Track record of reliable, observable, maintainable systems with strong testing and operational ownership

Nice to have:

Consumer products at high traffic/strict latency (search, recs, feeds, real-time answers)
Large-scale batch/stream processing and external data quality management
Experimentation frameworks (A/B testing, feature flags, metric definition/analysis)
Search/relevance, knowledge/entity systems, or ML-in-production integration
Sports data domain knowledge and/or experience with third-party sports data providers
Leading cross-team initiatives spanning multiple services and partner orgs

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
May 10, 2026

Employment Type:

Fulltime

Work Type:

On-site work

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