Principal Software Engineer

The Windows team is building a Centre of Excellence in Microsoft India, with a broad portfolio of services focused on creating new signature, and personalized experiences that make customer onboarding more seamless and productive. This role offers the opportunity to lead services that power end-to-end consumer experiences across Xbox gaming, M365 subscriptions, devices, and retail demos, spanning AMC (account.microsoft.com) and Windows surfaces. AMC is a Windows service and one of the most visited sites at Microsoft. These services federate Microsoft account data across multiple Microsoft services and enable cloud-powered content across many of the most widely used Windows surfaces, along with supporting a broad range of additional use cases.

Along with product development and maintaining service health, we operate as a first-class experimentation team, delivering proven impact by retaining and acquiring thousands of subscribers through AI-driven personalization, building our own ML models, and generating millions in savings for Microsoft.

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.

We are looking for a Principal Software Engineer who will technically lead multiple teams and partner with Windows and services teams across the globe to build, use and deploy various cutting-edge technologies in this space.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Lead teams of high-caliber Software Engineers, ensuring project and development excellence and technical leadership.
• Influence and align the product vision by collaborating with customers, partners, product management, and engineering teams.
• Drive the adoption and practical application of AI across both product features and engineering productivity.
• Deliver high quality results with full ownership and take the product to the next level.
• Foster a solid culture of engineering excellence, customer focus, collaboration, and diversity and inclusion.
• Hire and develop the best.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 12+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python.
• Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 10+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python. 
  • OR equivalent experience.
• 6+ years of total experience designing, building and shipping distributed software services for Web applications and cloud services at scale.
• Experience building products across the full stack using distributed services with modern tech stacks like React, Redis, Kubernetes, Azure or similar.
• Solid design, coding, debugging, teamwork, partnership, and communication skills.
• Excellent Technical skills in Driving Design, Architecture with cross product and services dependencies.
• Ability to Drive Innovation with customer obsession.
• Expertise in ML concepts and algorithms, along with a deep understanding of LLM usage patterns and agentic frameworks, is required.
• Experience with cross group design and coordination is an advantage.
• You must be self-driven, curious to learn, proactive, and result oriented.

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This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.