Principal Software Engineer

Microsoft

2 - 5 years

Hyderabad

Posted: 14/10/2025

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Job Description

Overview

Do you want to work on a product that touches and transforms the lives of billions of people across the globe? Do you want to work on the next set of innovations to transform it further and revolutionize it?

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.

Our CEO Satya’s mission is for Microsoft to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. Inline to that, Microsoft is embarking on the exciting new journey to revolutionize the most beloved and popular product ‘Windows’ even further to make its experiences more modern and seamless in order to delight its users and make them even more productive and successful.

The Windows team is growing a Centre of Excellence in Microsoft, India with a broad portfolio of applications to help innovate on the next version of Windows. We are focused on building Shell and Services Experiences on various Windows flavors that will make our customer experiences much more seamless and more productive. You will get an opportunity to collaborate across multiple teams within the Windows group and across product groups within the company.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 15+ 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 software at scale and at least including 5+ years of experience in modern app development using XAML/WinUI and C/C++.
C++ design/architecture skills with expertise in leading teams in Windows development.
Strong design, coding, debugging, teamwork, partnership and communication skills
Experience in leading large dev teams to achieve complex goals on time and on budget.
Proven ability to find a shippable solution given conflicting and ambiguous requirements.
Excellent Technical skills in Driving Design, Architecture with cross product and services dependencies.
Ability to Drive Innovation with customer obsession.
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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Responsibilities

We are looking for a Principal Software Engineer who is solid in C++ and Windows application development and who can take the product to customers with high quality and eye-catching features.

The team is to embark on a journey to own and drive the transformation of our experiences on Windows to be simple, delightful, and new Users interacting surface areas of anything that ships with Windows are in the purview of this team!

Influence and align the product vision by collaborating with customers, partners, product management and engineering teams.
Mentoring a team of high-caliber Software Engineers, ensuring project and development excellence and technical leadership
Deliver high quality results with full ownership and take the product to next level
Create a strong team culture of engineering excellence, customer passion, collaboration, diversity and inclusion. And of course, having fun too!
Hire and develop the best!

About Company

Microsoft Corporation is a leading American multinational technology company founded in 1975 by Bill Gates and Paul Allen. Headquartered in Redmond, Washington, Microsoft is best known for its software products, including the Windows operating system, Microsoft Office Suite, and Azure cloud services. The company also produces hardware like the Surface devices and owns LinkedIn, GitHub, and the Xbox gaming brand. Microsoft is one of the world's most valuable companies, playing a key role in personal computing, enterprise software, AI, and cloud computing.