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Principal Software Engineering Manager

2026-03-13

India, Karnataka, Bangalore

3 days / week in-office

Overview <div dir="ltr">Microsoft Teams is a mission critical collaboration platform used by hundreds of millions of people worldwide. The Teams Core organization builds the foundational services and platforms that enable Teams’ reliability, scale, performance, security, privacy, and extensibility. We are seeking a Principal Software Engineer Manager for the Modern Triage Services team to lead an engineering team building core backend systems, distributed services, and platform capabilities that power Teams’ feeds & notifications every day. You’ll set technical direction, raise the engineering bar, and deliver platform improvements that measurably improve availability, latency, security posture, and developer productivity across the Teams ecosystem. This role combines hands-on technical leadership with people leadership and cross-org influence. You’ll operate with high ownership in a fastmoving environment while delivering services that run at global scale. Why This Role <ul><li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Lead platform work that directly improves Teams reliability and performance for users worldwide.</li><li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Own high leverage architectural decisions across distributed services, data stores, networking, and service to service APIs.</li><li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Build and mentor a solid senior engineering bench and shape the team’s engineering culture.</li><li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Partner broadly across Product, Security/Privacy, Infrastructure, and Client teams to land end to end solutions. </li></ul>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.</div> Responsibilities <div dir="ltr">Technical Leadership & Architecture <ul><li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Own the architecture and evolution of core Teams services, building highly available, lowlatency distributed systems.</li><li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Lead design reviews and set standards for reliability, scalability, security, privacy, and performance (SLAs, threat modeling, capacity planning, and performance budgets).</li><li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Identify and mitigate systemic technical risks; drive simplification to reduce operational load and improve platform sustainability.</li><li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Stay handson where it matters—deep dives, debugging, and prototypes—while empowering teams to execute independently. </li></ul>Execution & Delivery <ul><li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Be accountable for shipping core platform capabilities that support millions of concurrent users with high availability and low latency.</li><li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Drive predictable execution using agile practices, solid program management, and datadriven prioritization (quality, cost, and customer impact).</li><li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Own livesite excellence: SLAs, alerts, incident response, postincident learning, and automation to prevent recurrence.</li><li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Balance feature delivery with investments in platform robustness, scalability, and engineering efficiency. </li></ul>People & Organization Leadership <ul><li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Lead, hire, mentor, and grow a team of software engineers; set clear expectations and career paths.</li><li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Build inclusive, highperforming teams with solid ownership, psychological safety, and a bias for engineering excellence.</li><li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Coach senior engineers and tech leads on execution, technical decisionmaking, and delivery excellence.</li><li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Foster a culture of collaboration, quality, innovation and customer focus aligned with Microsoft values.</li><li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Make AI a first-class production function. </li></ul>CrossOrg Influence & Strategy <ul><li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Partner closely with Product Management, Security, Privacy, Client, and Infrastructure teams to deliver endtoend experiences.</li><li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Influence technical and organizational decisions beyond your immediate team by building alignment, making tradeoffs explicit, and communicating clearly with senior leaders.</li><li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Drive crossteam initiatives that improve platform velocity, resilience, and developer productivity (tooling, CI/CD, and operational automation).</li><li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Define and deliver a multiquarter Teams Core technical roadmap, balancing reliability work, modernization, and feature enablement. </li></ul></div> Qualifications Required/Minimum Qualifications:<ul><li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">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.<ul style="list-style-type: circle;"><li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">OR equivalent experience.</li></ul></li><li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">12+ years of software engineering experience building and operating large-scale services, including distributed systems.</li><li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">12+ years leading engineering teams, with solid hiring, coaching, and delivery outcomes.</li><li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Proven track record delivering complex backend/platform capabilities in areas such as identity/auth, messaging, media, data platforms, networking, or developer platforms.</li><li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Solid expertise in system design, architecture, and cloudscale engineering (multiregion deployment, resiliency patterns, and observability).</li><li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Technical depth in modern backend development (for example: C#, Java, C++, Go), distributed data stores, messaging, and cloud platforms (for example: Azure/AWS/GCP). </li></ul>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:<ul type="disc"><li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter. </li></ul>Preferred Qualifications:<ul><li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Experience leading platform, infrastructure, or foundational services in a largescale product organization.</li><li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Deep knowledge of distributed systems and SRE practices (SLOs/SLIs, incident management, on call health, and operational automation).</li><li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Demonstrated ability to drive crossorg technical alignment and influence without authority.</li><li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Solid product mindset—connect platform investments to customer outcomes (quality, performance) and business impact (cost, agility). </li></ul> #CAPIDC#Teamscore This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled. <hr> 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 with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about <a href="https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/accessibility.html">requesting accommodations.</a>

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Firmware Engineer II

2026-03-13

India, Karnataka, Bangalore

3 days / week in-office

Overview <div data-olk-copy-source="MessageBody">If you are passionate about working on cutting edge new technology and looking to build a team ground up, with cultural values that put collaboration, growth mindset and people first, then this is the role for you. </div><div>The Azure Firmware Center of Excellence team is instrumental in defining and delivering operational success for Azure that exceeds our customer’s expectations. Our technology and innovations are globally available foundation of Azure Control plane that hosts services with the scale of Azure Compute / Bing / Skype / Azure Store / SQL, host millions of multiplayer gaming sessions and large-scale computational solutions. </div><div>Our teams are responsible for Firmware development of server, silicon and rack infrastructure design with a focus on innovation for Azure infrastructure for Microsoft and their customers. </div><div>If you are a seasoned engineering Leader with passion for building highly reliable, scalable distributed systems; If you want hands-on services architecture experience and like to produce impact across a large number of systems; if you have a penchant to learn and utilize your broad skill set to produce great customer impact; then this opportunity is for you - Join the Azure Firmware Center of Excellence and help us envision and build technical solutions to power Azure. </div><div>This is expected to be a hands on role, where you will have the opportunity to build and lead your team of extremely talented engineers to deliver innovation at scale and own delivery of product to Azure datacenters. </div><div>You must have proficient C programing skills, with experience with SoC Architecture and Design, writing low level drivers, root causing issues at the intersection of multiple subsystems across firmware and hardware. </div> Responsibilities <div data-olk-copy-source="MessageBody">Lead architecture, design, development and deployment of innovative firmware and Cloud firmware features that deliver competitive advantage and contribute to scale our business growth. </div><div>· Operate and influence a team of high performing engineers with the ability to motivate, build Firmware solutions for the cloud </div><div>· You will be involved with all phases of product development, from microarchitecture design through firmware architecture and development. </div><div>· Build solid engineering design plans, with bottoms up schedule, drive trade off, design decisions to meet top level schedule on time and with high quality </div><div aria-hidden="true"> </div> Qualifications <div data-olk-copy-source="MessageBody"> 5 to 10 years of professional experience designing, developing large scale Embedded Software solutions </div><div>· Experience with working from early concept of X86/X64/ARM Architecture and design to shipping final product </div><ul><li>AI/ML experience in hardware TPU,Nitro, Smart Nics is an added advantage </li></ul><div>· MS in Computer Science/Engineering or equivalent industry experience </div><div>· Proven and demonstrable skills in C, C++ or Rust </div><div>· Strong problem solving, debugging, and troubleshooting skills, advanced design, and development skills </div><div>· Experienced with low level firmware development including bare metal firmware for peripherals such as GPU,CPLD,TPM PCIe, I2C, eMMC, SPI, USB, UARTs as well as Memory Management, Scheduling, Interrupts and multi-threading </div><ul><li>Hands on Expertise in UEFI platform development. </li><li>Expertise in CPU architectures (2Socket,4socket,8socket,16 socket) – Intel or AMD or ARM is a must. </li><li>Expertise in Platform Server Architecture (CPU, Memory, PCI-e, NVMe, SSD/SAS, Secureboot, UEFI, BMC,GPUs, InfiniBand, Hardware interfaces like MUX/I2C/SPI, schematics, TPM) </li></ul><div aria-hidden="true"> </div> This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled. <hr> 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 with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about <a href="https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/accessibility.html">requesting accommodations.</a>

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Senior Software Engineer

2026-03-13

India, Karnataka, Bangalore

3 days / week in-office

Overview Microsoft is a company where passionate 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 thinking in a cloud-enabled world. The CoreAI organization at Microsoft builds the end-to end AI stack and is core to Azure AI innovation and differentiation, as well as all of Microsoft’s flagship products, from GitHub, to Office, Teams, and Xbox. The coreAI team builds Responsible AI, Azure OpenAI, Model as a Service, Azure ML, Cognitive Services, and the global Azure AI infrastructure for running the largest AI workloads on the planet.The Responsible AI group focuses on identifying, measuring, mitigating, and monitoring Responsible AI risks in AI-generated and human-generated content spanning text, image, audio, video, and multimodal content. We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer who is passionate about building customer-facing, high performance, low latency, and high availability AI services. In this role, you will work with a unique group of talented engineers, scientists, and product managers to build the industry-leading Responsible AI services. You will build new AI services and integrate with existing services such as Azure AI Content Safety, Azure OpenAI Service, Azure AI Studio, and more. Responsibilities <ul><li>AI-Native Development: Use AI tools responsibly and consistently across the SDLC, own the accuracy of AI-generated artifacts, and improve AI-enabled processes using engineering-health measures (Accelerate/SPACE/ESSP) through ongoing experimentation.</li><li>Coding: Raise code quality through timely, high signal reviews and strong engineering practices (secure/performance/testability/diagnosability), using automated analysis plus disciplined debugging/telemetry and retrospectives to prevent recurrence.</li><li>Design: Own and evolve architecture/design for complex scenarios with clear test strategy and security testing, integrate dependencies across systems/teams, evaluate tradeoffs/options, and ensure solutions meet performance, scalability, resiliency/DR, COGS, and compliance requirements.</li><li>Engineering Excellence: Drive engineering best practices and automation (toward zero-touch), strengthen security/privacy/accessibility compliance with auditable evidence, build/extend developer tools, stay current on trends, and operationalize “security as code” with gates/scanners/monitoring.</li><li>Implement: Plan and deliver through roadmaps and capacity-aware execution with flighting/experimentation and success + guardrail metrics, while using safe deployment practices, secure rollouts, dependency hygiene, and well defined rollback strategies.</li><li>Reliability and Supportability: Improve reliability via comprehensive telemetry/instrumentation and privacy-aware monitoring outputs, lead as DRI/on-call using playbooks and SLA discipline, reduce incident volume with systemic fixes and postmortems, and continuously strengthen TSGs/wikis/tests/observability.</li><li>Understand User Requirements: Partner with internal/external stakeholders to validate user requirements (including security/privacy), incorporate customer insights and unwritten needs, and define measurable feedback loops across quantitative and qualitative value signals. </li></ul> Qualifications <ul><li>Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.</li><li>5+ years of professional software engineering experience, with strong hands‑on development in one or more programming languages such as C#,Golang, Python.</li><li>Strong expertise in software design and development, including system architecture, data structures, algorithms, and designing scalable, reliable, and secure services.</li><li>Proven experience owning and delivering complex features or services end‑to‑end, from design through implementation, testing, deployment, and operational support.</li><li>Solid understanding of cloud‑based and distributed systems, including reliability, performance optimization, telemetry, diagnostics, and live site support considerations. </li><li>Ability to influence technical direction and mentor others, demonstrated through design leadership, code reviews, and collaboration across teams.</li><li>Experience applying secure coding practices and compliance requirements, ensuring solutions meet Microsoft’s security, privacy, and engineering quality standards.</li><li>Communicating to Drive Mutual Success: Articulating messaging in a clear and respectful manner to achieve collaborative and mutually beneficial outcomes while ensuring all parties are heard, understood, and aligned towards shared goals.</li><li>Designing and Architecting Business Solutions: Designing and architecting products, services, and systems by employing design principles across diverse technological solutions and guiding projects through each phase of the engineering lifecycle to ensure alignment with business goals and customer satisfaction.</li><li>Driving Solution Improvement and Excellence: Leading the validation of innovative products, services, and solutions through pinpointing opportunities for improvement, monitoring and testing systems, and fostering strategic solutions to identified challenges or issues.</li><li>Engineering Robust Software Solutions: Employing computer science principles to design, develop, and optimize scalable algorithms, distributed systems, business applications, and other software solutions.</li><li>Enhancing Product and Project Execution: Streamlining project lifecycles through the integration of project and product planning and quality assurance methods to ensure all phases of a project are planned, assessed, and aligned with strategic goals and to optimize performance and project outcomes.</li><li>Solving Problems Through a Data-Driven Approach: Extracting actionable insights to understand their implications within the broader organizational context; solving problems and making decisions through a swift, informed, and strategic approach.</li></ul>Preferred qualification: <ul><li>8+ years of technical engineering experience with coding in languages such as C#, Golang, Python when holding a Bachelor’s degree, or 6+ years with a Master’s degree, demonstrating strong depth in software engineering.</li><li>Advanced technical judgment and architectural capability, including ability to design, optimize, debug, refactor, and guide engineering decisions across features, systems, or services.</li><li>Demonstrated leadership and collaboration skills, such as mentoring peers, influencing cross‑team architecture, and serving as a DRI to ensure reliability, performance, and operational excellence.</li><li>Good exposure to AI platforms, large language models (LLMs), and core machine‑learning concepts, with the ability to apply these in designing scalable, secure, and intelligent engineering solutions. </li></ul>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. This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled. <hr> 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 with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about <a href="https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/accessibility.html">requesting accommodations.</a>

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