Principal Software Engineer
Job Description
Microsoft is a company where innovators come to collaborate, envision what can be, and take their careers further. This is a world of more possibilities, more innovation, more openness, and the sky is the limit in a cloud-enabled world.Microsoft’s Azure Data engineering team is leading the transformation of analytics in the world of data with products like databases, data integration, big data analytics, messaging & real-time analytics, and business intelligence. Our portfolio includes Microsoft Fabric, Azure SQL DB, Azure Cosmos DB, Azure PostgreSQL, Azure Data Factory, Azure Synapse Analytics, Azure Service Bus, Azure Event Grid, and Power BI. Our mission is to build the data platform for the age of AI, powering a new class of data-first applications and driving a global data culture. Within Azure Data, the Usage Billing team builds the next-generation data platform for reliable ingestion, aggregation, and processing of usage emitted at high volume by Microsoft services, ensuring accurate and timely billing through internal Commerce systems. This is a mission-critical service built for scale, compliance, and data guarantees—leveraging world-class Azure real-time messaging, streaming, and analytics services to ensure critical billing usage data flows into revenue for Microsoft. At Microsoft, we don’t just value differences—we seek them out and invite them in, so we can tap into the collective power of everyone in the company. The result is stronger teams, better products, and better outcomes for our customers.
Locations
- Hyderabad, Telangana, India, Hyderabad, Telangana, India
Salary
Salary not disclosed
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Math, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field AND 12+ years experience in software development, architecture/design, data modeling or data engineering work OR Master's Degree in Computer Science, Math, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field AND 10+ year(s) experience in software development, architecture/design, data modeling or data engineering work OR equivalent experience (degree)
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to work effectively in a multidisciplinary team, including Software Engineers, Program Managers, Security experts (degree)
- Proven experience designing, building, and operating large-scale, distributed cloud services with strong focus on reliability, scalability, and performance (degree)
- Strong operational discipline with the ability to manage live-site health, respond to randomization, and consistently deliver high-quality outcomes (degree)
- This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter. (degree)
Responsibilities
- Lead the design, development, and validation of core platform components, ensuring service fundamentals around reliability, monitoring, security, performance, and engineering systems
- Drive architectural decisions for complex distributed systems that power billing across all Microsoft services
- Partner across Microsoft teams to shape the underlying design of shared components, ensuring alignment with the broader Microsoft ecosystem and long-term technical direction
- Lead critical pipeline components that run all Microsoft billing workloads, providing unified and accurate usage reporting across Azure, Office, and other services. This work is highly visible, with direct impact on Microsoft’s revenue stream
- Influence and mentor engineers across the team and organization, raising the bar for technical excellence, collaboration, and live-site culture
Travel Requirements
3 days / week in-office
