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

The Data Security team's mission is to building cloud solutions to support premium features that provide security, compliance, data governance, data loss prevention, and more, in a fully integrated manner from services to clients of Office 365 as well as Windows. We create global scale services to transport, store, secure and manage some of the most sensitive data on the planet and build our services on top of Azure, Exchange and other cloud platforms, and our experiences in Office applications like Outlook. The IDC arm of the team is expanding substantially and is looking for talented and highly motivated engineers. This is an excellent opportunity for anyone who has, or wants to build, expertise in cloud distributed systems, or in security and compliance, or both.

Team will be building cloud solutions meeting scales that few companies in the industry are required to support, that leverage state of the art technologies to deliver holistic protection to a planet scale user base. Office 365 is the industry leader in hosted productivity suites and boasts to be the fastest growing business at Microsoft with more than 100 million seats hosted in multiple data centers across the globe. The SCM Engineering team provides leadership, direction and accountability for application architecture, Cloud design, infrastructures development and end to end implementation. You will independently determine and develop architectural approaches and Infrastructure solutions, conduct business reviews, and operate our production services. Strong collaboration skills will be required to work closely with other engineering teams to ensure services/systems are highly stable and performant and meet the expectations of internal and external customers and users.

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.
• Experience in DevOps to maintain live services and\or application frameworks.
• 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

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
• Drive design reviews across the team and apply expertise in available technologies
• 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

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 and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.