Principal Software Engineer

About the role

Are you passionate about architecting, building, and maintaining next-generation platforms for real-time data delivery that power Microsoft’s multi-billion-dollar advertising business? On our team, you’ll design and evolve complex systems, apply AI and next-gen technologies to solve modern engineering challenges, and collaborate with Ads and Bing teams to enable new scenarios.

What you'll do

• Define and drive the technical vision and architecture for large-scale, complex systems, ensuring scalability, reliability, security, and cost efficiency
• Hands-on, contributing to core code, complex implementations, and production issue resolution
• Influence and align multiple teams and stakeholders across organizations through solid technical leadership
• Partner with Product Management and leadership to translate business goals into robust technical solutions
• Mentor engineers, raise the technical bar, and promote a culture of engineering excellence

What you need

• 10–18 years in software engineering
• Data structures
• SQL
• Java
• JavaScript
• Python
• Git
• B.Sc or B.Tech or B.E. or BCA

Good to have

• Machine learning
• Azure
• C++
• C#
• Kafka
• Microservices