Principal Software Engineer

Overview

Windows

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Principal Software Engineer

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The more diverse our team, the more inclusive our?end result. To that end, we encourage applicants from any background and with any perspective.

Microsoft's mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer ScienceOR related technical field AND 10+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including C++ ORC#.
• Deep technical experience including leading others.
• Researching (andperhaps buildingprototypes and beyond) some new ways of doing something.
• Demonstrates a mastery of communication and data presentation and storytelling skills.
• Exhibits a growth mindset and humility, while working through high stakes scenarios.
• Proven experiences as an ally who can further a more open, diverse, and inclusive workplace with a goal of everyone feeling like they belong.
• Demonstrated hypothesis-driven,?problem-solving orientation.
• Strong technical and analytical skills, and a passion for customers.
• Strong design, coding, debugging, teamwork, and communication skills.
• 10 + years of experience shipping commercial software.?
• 5+ years of experience with C++ and/or C#?

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Windows development tools and technologies, including Visual Studio and the Windows SDK. XAML familiarity is a plus.
• Win32 application and systems programming experience?will be a bonus.?
• Experience working on Open-Source projects in GitHub.

Other Requirements

Candidates must be able to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements that 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

We are building a center of excellence for client platform in Windows India organization. The platform enablesfirst-partyand third-party developers to build amazing Windows apps.

• As aPrincipal Software Engineer, you willbe responsible fordesigning and developing high-quality software components and libraries for Windows Developers.
• You will be exposing the capabilities via APIs which need to follow consistent patterns, are scalable,extensibleand maintainable.
• You will also play a key role in open-ended explorations, prototyping andidentifyingopportunities for our developers.
• You will have the amazing opportunity learn and grow by working closely with the architects, senior engineers, Program Managers, and AI/ML scientists who contribute to the overall technical vision and strategy of the architectural how of how we build a scalablearchitecture with great fundamentals (such as performance, power, reliability).?And you may need to interact with our amazing open resource community developers via GitHub.