Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft

Hyderabad, Telangana, India -

Full Time

Start Date

Immediate

Expiry Date

21 Jan, 26

Salary

0.0

Posted On

23 Oct, 25

Experience

10 year(s) or above

Remote Job

Yes

Telecommute

Yes

Sponsor Visa

Skills

Software Engineering, AI-Driven Solutions, Continuous Deployment, Live-Site Operations, Experimentation Frameworks, Automation, User Experience, Agility, Cross-Disciplinary Leadership, Mentoring, Innovation, Reliability, Collaboration, Data-Informed Decision Making, Customer Obsession, Engineering Excellence

Industry

Software Development

Description

Microsoft is on a mission to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. Our culture is centered on embracing a growth mindset, a theme of inspiring excellence, and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day. In doing so, we create life-changing innovations that impact billions of lives around the world. You can help us to achieve our mission. Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat is the conversational core of Microsoft Copilot —where enterprise AI meets productivity. It’s the default interface through which users summarize meetings, draft emails, generate insights from enterprise data, and coordinate with teams using natural language. As Microsoft accelerates its AI-first strategy, Chat isn’t just a feature—it’s the gateway. It’s the most visible and critical surface for AI-powered work. As a Principal Software Engineer, you’ll lead the creation of next-generation conversational experiences for Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat. Your mission is to accelerate delivery by shaping engineering systems that enable rapid iteration, continuous deployment, and resilient live-site operations. You’ll design frameworks for experimentation, automate release and monitoring processes, and embed AI-driven solutions to optimize workflows and elevate user experience. This role demands a visionary who can balance speed with reliability, ensuring seamless performance at global scale while mentoring teams and influencing product direction. If you thrive on innovation, automation, and building systems that empower agility, this is your opportunity to lead from the front. You will work closely with world-class principal and partner engineers and leaders, for a product that is at the epicenter of Microsoft. What makes this role unique: Massive surface area & impact: Your work directly shapes the foundation of Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat. Impact at Scale: Shape the future of enterprise productivity for millions of users worldwide. AI-Driven Innovation: Apply cutting-edge AI to transform engineering systems and user experiences. End-to-End Ownership: Influence everything from experimentation frameworks to live site reliability. Culture of Agility: Drive rapid iteration and continuous delivery while maintaining world-class reliability. Cross-Disciplinary Leadership: Collaborate with UX, AI, and platform teams to deliver breakthrough experiences. How we work: Customer-obsessed & data-informed: We form bold hypotheses, ship safely, measure rigorously, and iterate. Fundamentals at the core: We invest in building solid foundation that enables teams to build and ship innovation. Engineering excellence: We invest in tests, telemetry, agentic coding enablement, and continuous hardening to earn the right to go faster. Inclusive at our core: We welcome diverse perspectives and design accessible experiences for a global audience. Outcomes over output: We celebrate learning and hold ourselves accountable to business and customer impact 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

Lead the creation of next-generation conversational experiences for Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat. Shape engineering systems that enable rapid iteration, continuous deployment, and resilient live-site operations.