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Principal Software Engineer

Microsoft· Software Engineering
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Hyderabad, IndiaFull-timePosted 1w ago

About the role

Core AI-focused role building foundational platforms, services, programming models, and developer experiences for Generative AI. The Agentic Core Services Team provides cloud-native infrastructure and runtime systems to enable intelligent, autonomous AI agent applications at enterprise scale with security and reliability guarantees.

Responsibilities

  • Lead architecture discussions and decision-making for complex products, ensuring design quality, scalability, and compliance.
  • Mentor engineers in creating and executing comprehensive test strategies to maintain high solution quality and security.
  • Identify and manage dependencies across teams, driving collaboration and conflict resolution to meet shared goals.
  • Drive security best practices embedding "security as code," including proactive vulnerabilities prevention and incident response processes.
  • Lead automation efforts for production deployment aiming at zero-touch deployments and error-free runtime.
  • Collaborate with partner teams to ensure integration, scalability, performance, and live-site readiness before product launch.
  • Mentor and lead coding quality improvements, debugging efforts, and adoption of AI tools to enhance software engineering excellence.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field, along with 10+ years of experience designing, developing, and operating large-scale, production-grade software systems and services.
  • Strong hands-on software development experience using an object-oriented programming language.
  • Experience with cloud services and distributed systems is preferred.
  • Demonstrated experience leading engineering initiatives and driving execution across teams of 5–7 engineers.

Skills

Required:Object-oriented programmingArchitecture leadership
Nice to have:Cloud servicesDistributed systems
Last updated Oct 16, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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