Overview
The Windows team is building a Centre of Excellence in Microsoft India, with a broad portfolio of services focused on creating new signature, and personalized experiences that make customer onboarding more seamless and productive. This role offers the chance to lead services that power end-to-end consumer experiences across Xbox gaming, M365 subscriptions, devices, and retail demos, spanning AMC (account.microsoft.com) and Windows surfaces. AMC is a Windows service and one of the most visited sites at Microsoft. These services federate Microsoft account data across multiple Microsoft services and enable cloud-powered content across many of the most widely used Windows surfaces, along with supporting a broad range of additional use cases.
Along with product development and maintaining service health, we operate as a first-class experimentation team, delivering proven impact by retaining and acquiring thousands of subscribers through AI-driven personalization, building our own ML models, and generating millions in savings for Microsoft.




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
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.
Primary Responsibilities:
- 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 appl

📌 Principal Software Engineer (Hyderabad)
🏢 Microsoft
📍 Hyderabad