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Principal Software Engineer - Backend

Microsoft· Software Engineering
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NoidaFull-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

The Cosmic & M365 Deployments team at M365 Core IDC builds hyperscale cloud infrastructure powering Microsoft 365 services, including COSMIC, a managed container platform. The role focuses on technical strategy, architecture, and delivery of large-scale, secure, reliable distributed systems for cloud deployments, with emphasis on automation, observability, and global-scale impact.

Responsibilities

  • Drive technical strategy, architecture, and execution for hyperscale cloud platform and deployment systems.
  • Lead the design and delivery of large-scale infrastructure and platform investments.
  • Build secure, scalable, reliable, and maintainable distributed systems.
  • Influence engineering direction through architectural leadership and technical decision-making.
  • Drive operational excellence through automation, observability, and reliability engineering.
  • Ensure solutions meet the highest standards of security, privacy, compliance, accessibility, and service reliability.
  • Mentor engineers and foster a culture of engineering excellence across teams.
  • Partner across Microsoft to deliver business impact at global scale.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python.
  • OR equivalent experience.

Skills

Required:Distributed systems designArchitectural leadership
Nice to have:Cloud infrastructure

Benefits

  • MS Cloud Background Check required on hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
Last updated Sep 3, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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