Do you want to work on a product which touches and transforms the lives of billions of people across the globe? Do you want to lead the next set of innovations to transform and revolutionize it even further? Are you someone who is passionate about bringing customer obsession and engineering craftsmanship into the product you build?

Our CEO Satya’s mission is for Microsoft to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. Inline to that, Microsoft is embarking on the exciting new journey to revolutionize the most beloved and popular product ‘Windows’ even further to make its experiences more modern and seamless to delight its users and make them even more productive and successful.

The Windows Developer Platform team is growing a Centre of Excellence in Microsoft, Hyderabad to embark on the journey to own and drive transformation of our experiences on Windows to be simple, delightful, and new. Our team’s focus is on making developers more productive on Windows. We are looking for a Principal Engineer who can help advance this team and this technology portfolio. The team embraces a ‘people-first’ approach focused on culture and believes in the power of open-source and building an external community. You will be responsible for driving engineering for one or more developer platform technologies shipping in Windows, .NET as well as open sourced ones like WinUI, MSIX, WPF, etc. You will get to work with a team of engineering managers and engineers and partner with Windows Developer platform teams as well as Windows and .NET teams closely across the globe to build, use, and deploy cutting-edge technologies in this space.

Ensuring we make quality decisions requires establishing, maintaining, and building strength in our engineering organization. We need everyone’s help to grow each and every one of us with the capability to design and build complex systems, whether we’re early in career or a seasoned Windows veteran.

Responsibilities

Technical Leadership for the Group Engineering Manager Team . You will be seen as and will be playing the technical leadership role at the GEM level where you will be setting up, reviewing, signing off and contributing to the technical and architectural decisions made by various EM teams across the reporting GEM. You will act as driver, consultant, bouncing board and also champion for such technical choices and directions. You will be expected to represent the GEM and it’s projects at Director or Windows level communities to be able to align and bring back the cohesiveness in the technical and architectural stream.

· Contributing to the Architecture Community. Great ideas come from everywhere. Our goal is for every group to have architecture representation, ensuring that everyone gets their feedback heard and the design help they need. All will be welcome to participate in review forums, documents, and the other work of the architects with a particular focus on building strength in our EIC community. You will also be responsible to be deeply connected with the other Principal IC community within Windows and being deeply involved with the top issues they are helping with and bring new issues to that group for Windows India that will most benefit from their expertise.

· Writing it Down & building infrastructure . The cumulative decisions we all make on an individual level, in combination, form our overall system architecture. You will drive and contribute to producing documents that support easy offline sharing, commenting and review of the important points of any significant choice. To reduce process, we will look at you to drive and contribute to defining templates to make quick-specs through TSD-scale multi-organizational architectures that ensure consistent detail and review flow.

· Review Forums. You will be here to help, supporting from one-pager reviews to get early design insights and coaching, all the way through any needed reviews. This individual will set up forums for review of their team’s work. They also will know when to bring in others from around Windows India or Windows overall so we’re all working together.

· Planning and Strategy. While we encourage teams to dream the future of Windows unrestricted by technical realities, we also understand that technical realities exist that make some efforts more costly or difficult to achieve than others. Identifying these “big rocks,” up-leveling the visibility of our hardest problems and building a multi-release approach for addressing them will be a key role facilitated by the individual in this position.

· Leadership Team Participation. This role reports to the Group Manager and as such you are a key member of the GM’s Leadership Team. You will participate in a wide variety of decision-making discussions and will need to bring your unique viewpoint to the table, share, and help us make the best decisions. Similarly, you work on a wide variety of group-impacting activities whether it is D&I initiatives, training, communications, etc.

· IC Mentor and Confidant. As an approachable member of the leadership community with a role most similar to the ICs in the org, you will need to devote some of your focus to mentoring and growing others and having your pulse on the IC community. You will need to bring that back to the leadership and ensure we make changes to make the IC employee experience as great as possible. Many people will see you as a path to the Architect and Principal Engineer, so you will need to represent the Group Manager and their LT in the way they would.

Qualifications

Deep technical experience including leading others

• Researching (and perhaps building prototypes and beyond) some new ways of doing something

• Demonstrates a mastery of communication and data presentation and storytelling skills.

• Exhibits a growth mindset and humility, while working through high stakes scenarios.

• Proven experiences as an ally who can further a more open, diverse, and inclusive workplace with a goal of everyone feeling like they belong

• Demonstrated hypothesis-driven, problem-solving orientation

• Strong design, coding, debugging, teamwork, and communication skills

• 12 + years of experience shipping commercial software.

• 5+ years of experience with C++ and Windows is a huge plus

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, 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 and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations (https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/accessibility.html) .