Principal Software Engineer Job at Microsoft Corporation (Bangalore)

Principal Software Engineer

Microsoft Corporation

Location:
India , Bangalore

Category:
IT - Software Development

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Job Description:

Microsoft’s Azure Data engineering team is leading the transformation of analytics in the world of data with products like databases, data integration, big data analytics, messaging & real-time analytics, and business intelligence. The products our portfolio include Microsoft Fabric, Azure SQL DB, Azure Cosmos DB, Azure PostgreSQL, Azure Data Factory, Azure Synapse Analytics, Azure Service Bus, Azure Event Grid, and Power BI. Our mission is to build the data platform for the age of AI, powering a new class of data-first applications and driving a data culture. Within Azure Data, the big data analytics team provides a range of products that enable data engineers and data scientists to extract intelligence from all data – structured, semi-structured, and unstructured. We build the Data Engineering, Data Science, and Data Integration pillars of Microsoft Fabric. The Fabric Data Engineering Experience & Infrastructure team is hiring a backend Engineer to help build infrastructure for Fabric Data Engineering, based on Apache Spark. You will help implement highly scalable and reliable distributed systems with advanced capabilities designed to help Data Engineers achieve more through Microsoft Fabric.

Job Responsibility:

Adopt AI-first development practices for creating, implementing, optimizing, debugging, refactoring, and reusing code to establish and enhance features, performance, maintainability, effectiveness, and return on investment (ROI)
Collaborate with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for product scenarios
Drive end-to-end across multiple teams starting from identification of, documentation of design to completion of development of a feature, product, application, service, or platform
Leverage subject-matter expertise of product features and partner with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., product managers) in driving workgroup's project plans, release plans, and work items
Act as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) and guide other engineers in 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 seek new knowledge and adapt 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

Requirements:

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Engineering or Mathematics or Physics or related technical discipline
12+ years of software engineering and product development experience in industry
12+ years of proven track record of shipping end-user software services or products
10+ years of in-depth object-oriented programming experience in (not limited to) Java/C++/C#
Equal ability in reading and enhancing existing code as well as writing entirely new code from scratch
Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role
This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter

Nice to have:

Master’s degree in Computer Science or Engineering or Mathematics or Physics or related technical discipline
Experience with open-source software components
Experience working on continuous integration and flighting services toolset
Great curiosity and willingness to question
High enthusiasm, integrity, ingenuity, results-orientation, self-motivation, and resourcefulness in a fast-paced competitive environment
Have a deep desire to work collaboratively, solve problems with groups, find winning solutions and celebrate successes
Get excited by the challenge of hard technical problems
Love the next problem, the next experiment, the next partner
Solve problems by always leading with deep passion and empathy for customers
Experience working with Service Fabric or Kubernetes

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
March 01, 2026

Employment Type:

Fulltime

Work Type:

Hybrid work

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