We are looking for a Principal Software Engineer who will technically lead multiple teams and partner with Windows and services teams across the globe to build, use and deploy various cutting-edge technologies in this space. Lead teams of high-caliber Software Engineers, ensuring project and development excellence and technical leadership. Influence and align the product vision by collaborating with customers, partners, product management, and engineering teams. Drive the adoption and practical application of AI across both product features and engineering productivity. Deliver high quality results with full ownership and take the product to the next level. Foster a solid culture of engineering excellence, customer focus, collaboration, and diversity and inclusion. Hire and develop the best. Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 12+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python. Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 10+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python. OR equivalent experience. 6+ years of total experience designing, building and shipping distributed software services for Web applications and cloud services at scale. Experience building products across the full stack using distributed services with modern tech stacks like React, Redis, Kubernetes, Azure or similar. Solid design, coding, debugging, teamwork, partnership, and communication skills. Excellent Technical skills in Driving Design, Architecture with cross product and services dependencies. Ability to Drive Innovation with customer obsession. Expertise in ML concepts and algorithms, along with a deep understanding of LLM usage patterns and agentic frameworks, is required. Experience with cross group design and coordination is an advantage. You must be self-driven, curious to learn, proactive, and result oriented.
