Principal Eng Architect

**PRINCIPAL ENG ARCHITECT**:
Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Date posted

**Oct 28, 2025**
- Job number

**1901110**
- Work site

**3 days / week in-office**
- Travel

**0-25**%**
- Role type

**Individual Contributor**
- Profession

**Software Engineering**
- Discipline

**Software Engineering**
- Employment type

**Full-Time**

**Overview**:
**Qualifications**:
**Expertise/Experience**
- Solid understanding of Object-Oriented Programming and common Design Patterns
- 10+ years of relevant software development experience and proficient in C# (Java or C++)
- Ability to communicate technical details clearly across organizational boundaries.
- Cloud and services experience, with Azure cloud experience highly desirable.
- Analytical skills with systematic and structured approach to software design.
- Passion for building highly scalable, highly reliable services.
- Experience with or exposure to Agile and iterative development processes.
- Collaborating with technical partners to deliver end-to-end solutions
- Experience with multithreading and asynchronous processing
- Experience with CI/CD pipeline using agile practices
- Ability to quickly ramp up on multiple technology areas

**Interpersonal skills**
- Confident and articulate in expressing ideas to a mixed audience with varying views and challenges
- Cultural sensitivity and a proven ability to work with teams and partners across multiple geographies.
- A sense of personal ownership is required, together with the ability to deliver to tight deadlines while managing internal stakeholder expectations
- Self-motivated and organized to deliver results

**_ Essential qualifications_**
- BS or MS degree in Computer Science or Engineering OR equivalent years of work experience.
- Minimum of 10+ years of applicable work experience

**Responsibilities**:

- We are looking for fast learning, highly-motivated, creative and analytical software engineers. In this position you will work closely with other security engineering disciplines to plan, architect, design, implement and validate, security products and features. In addition to strong technical skills, you should have a passion for innovation and software quality. You will need to be comfortable with fast paced security industry by courageously treading the unexplored arenas and thinking ahead of the highly sophisticated attackers.You will be responsible to perform investigations and investments in complex areas; designing and delivering features end to end - including system architecture, code, deployment, scale, performance and quality, from conception to delivery.
- Design and implement scalable, reliable, maintainable services
- Demonstrate strategic understanding of the timing and rationale for design choices, within the scope of work.
- Consistently contribute key ideas to the product or service design and vision that meets the customer's needs
- metrics to drive the quality and stability of code
- Have a sense of pride, commitment, and personal accountability for the service quality, completeness and resulting user experience for the life of the product or service
- Work closely with geographically distributed team, including Product Managers and developers, to drive key improvements in backend Engineering System.

We are looking for someone who shares our passion for building great software for enterprises. You will work in a forward-looking product as part of an agile, collaborative, and cross-discipline team.

As a Principal SWE, you will responsible for all aspects of a feature area including design, implementation, performance and quality. You will take such feature areas from ideation to successful global roll out. You will act as a code and design reviewer and mentors other engineers. You must be self-driven, proactive, and results-oriented.
- Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.
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Industry leading healthcare
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Educational resources
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Discounts on products and services
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Savings and investments
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Maternity and paternity leave
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Generous time away
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Giving programs
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Opportunities to network and connect