Principal Software Engineer

Microsoft Edge declared a while back that it will be making the web better through more open source collaboration while Edge promises to continue to enable customers to do more. With the general availability Edge has already reached millions of customers and is taking a fresh approach to browsing by putting the end user at the center and meeting the user where they are, shipping on Windows 10, down level Windows, Mac and Android.

Are you an amazing engineer with penchant for taking up big problems and hard challenges? Do you enjoy the thrill and energy of a startup, challenges of cutting-edge innovations, coupled with engineering rigor? Would you like to be part of an agile, learning, empowered, energetic and collaborative team? Do you believe in clean design, crafted implementation, being meticulous about quality, obsessing about the customer and innovating daily? The extensive reach of Edge coupled with building delightful everyday experiences on a range of devices offers exceptional opportunities of independent ownership, working on cutting edge technologies and professional growth.

Come join a team of highly motivated developers working on Microsoft Edge Autofill and Passwords team. We are looking for an individual with high standards of excellence to join our engineering team to build amazing experiences that are robust, fast, and seamless. The ideal candidate is skilled at design and implementation, able to and own large architectural designs and collaborate well across multiple partner teams.

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.

Responsibilities

• Be a great technical leader for the team and broader organization. You will be working with a very technical diverse team of between 5 and 8 developers and expected to provide technical direction
• Capable of designing and implementing large feature areas, working in the code, guiding the team, and understanding at a detailed level how the software works
• Architect robust scalable software designs, own technical strategy, have an informed opinion about how the software should evolve and ability to land your design with high quality and on time
• Create layered, componentized, testable, interface-based designs ensuring a robust high-quality implementation and crafted end-user experiences
• Leads by example and mentors others to produce extensible and maintainable code used across products.
• Leverages subject-matter expertise of cross-product features with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project managers) to drive multiple group's project plans, release plans, and work items.
• Holds accountability as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI), mentoring engineers across products/solutions, working on-call to monitor system/product/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions.
• Proactively seeks new knowledge and adapts to new trends, technical solutions, and patterns that will improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while also driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale and shares knowledge with other engineers.

Qualifications

Required Qulaifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
• OR equivalent experience
• 12+ years of professional industry experience working on large projects.
• A BS or MS in Computer Science or a related technical discipline.
• Excellent design, coding, debugging, and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to design performant, highly usable, scalable, world-ready, accessible software.
• Ability to create layered, componentized, testable, interface-based designs.
• Consistent track record of shipping compelling technologies.
• OR equivalent experience

Preferred Qualifications:

• 10+ years of experience with Microservices and Azure or equivalent cloud infrastructure.
• Experience in Cloud deployment, Deployment automation, CI/CD.
• Experience in data engineering and analytics is desirable.
• Experience building solutions with Azure is a plus (Cosmos DB, Service Fabric, AAD, Pipelines) is a plus.
• Experience in C# or equivalent high-level language.
• Experience with python, PowerShell or relevant scripting languages.
• Experience with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and other web technologies is a plus.
• Experience architecting and integrating AI/ML tech stacks, experience with production-grade LLM workflows and ability to drive efficiency through advanced prompt engineering is a plus.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Effective collaboration skills driving changes at scale

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.

Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.

#edgejobs #edgejobs #edgeindia #edgeautofill #edgepasswords #edgepasskeys #MicrosoftAI