Overview
The Windows + Devices Fundamentals team improves the reliability, performance, responsiveness, battery life, memory efficiency, and overall health of Windows devices. We build and operate the services, telemetry systems, and data pipelines that transform signals from labs and the installed base into trustworthy metrics, actionable diagnostics, and measurable engineering improvements.
We are seeking a Principal Software Engineer to define the technical direction for critical Windows Fundamentals data and service capabilities. You will shape architecture across backend services, telemetry platforms, data pipelines, metrics, and diagnostic workflows; solve the portfolio's most complex technical problems; and influence engineering investments that improve Windows health at scale.
This role is ideal for a deeply technical engineering leader who combines distributed-systems and data-platform expertise with solid product judgment, hands-on problem solving, and the ability to align and inspire engineers across organizational boundaries.




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Responsibilities
• Define the technical strategy and architecture for Windows Fundamentals backend services, telemetry systems, data pipelines, metrics, cohort frameworks, and diagnostic capabilities.
• Lead the design of scalable systems for telemetry ingestion, transformation, orchestration, storage, health monitoring, analytics, diagnostics, and automated engineering workflows.
• Set technical standards for service reliability, security, compliance, privacy, observability, data quality, schema evolution, deployment safety, incident response, and operationa

📌 Principal Software Engineer (Hyderabad)
🏢 Microsoft
📍 Hyderabad