Job Description

Principal Software Engineer

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Hyderabad, Telangana, India



Date posted

Oct 13, 2025

Job number

1891309

Work site

3 days / week in-office

Travel

25-50

%

Role type

Individual Contributor

Profession

Software Engineering

Discipline

Software Engineering

Employment type

Full-Time

Overview

At Azure DevOps, we pride ourselves on building services that make engineering teams productive. This is the reason why Azure DevOps is solution of choice for millions of engineers - including thousands of Microsoft largest customers and internal teams. Azure DevOps - https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/devops/ - is a suite of services as part of Microsoft Azure, which provides work planning, repos, CI/CD, test management, and more.
We are looking for creative and driven software engineers with passion for web, services, and/or full stack development to deliver on Azure DevOps Promise - Always available, always Reliable and always responsive. As we enhance our product, we are looking for passionate engineers who can build at scale and solve some hard problems.

As a Principal Engineer for Azure DevOps , you will provide end-to-end technical leadership for a service and/or a platform sub-system. You will help the team with technology tradeoffs, long-term architecture design and suggest methods to enhance product for greater scale. You will be hands-on with component design and coding and mentor others around you on best development practices and site reliability practices. You will lead others by exemplifying technical excellence, inclusiveness, teamwork, and customer focus. You will handle live site and support team in addressing issues comprehensively.

If the above sounds challenging and exciting, we'd love to talk to you.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

:BA/BS or MS degree in Computer Science or equivalent field 12+ years of industry experience building and shipping software using modern programming languages such as C#, C++, Java, Go or Python Track record of successfully leading end-to-end engineering projects from conception to delivery across multiple ship cycles Excellent technical design, problem solving and debugging skills Customer obsession and passion for shipping high quality products Track record of collaborating effectively with multiple cross-functional teams across geographies

Preferred Qualifications

:Experience with Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment paradigms Experience with high scale SQL. Experience building and shipping a large-scale cloud service is a big plus Experience with cloud infrastructure such as Azure, AWS or GCP Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and DevOps tools and processes Experience working with geo-distributed engineering teams and XFN partners Experience in site-reliability engineering practices and supporting scalable live site services Experience growing and mentoring senior engineers

Other Requirements

Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings: Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Responsibilities

Design, implement, test, instrument, document and maintain Azure DevOps services in cloud Partner with product management, OSS community, ISV partners, customers, and other stakeholders to define requirements, scope projects and ship products in rapid, iterative cycles Stay up to date on industry trends around cloud native technologies, open source development and dev ops processes, leading efforts on innovation, modern design, and reliability engineering. Champion engineering practices of safe and fast paced releases - e.g. flight code changes and drive telemetry and analytics to take a data-driven approach to understanding customer impact Support and influence team culture of customer obsession, continuous improvement, reflection, and growth - mentor, initiate and participate in in design and code sharing Be avid customer advocate - meet with customers, and product support to learn about their experience, analyze how features are performing in production and make the product better Build for security, privacy, scalability, reliability, and compliance



Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.
?Industry leading healthcare
?Educational resources
?Discounts on products and services
?Savings and investments
?Maternity and paternity leave
?Generous time away
?Giving programs
?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.