Software Engineer

Are you an experienced backend engineer with a passion for building large scale distributed system to enable more innovations on the search, recommendation, and AI services and products? Are you passionate in leading an agile team while remaining "hands-on"? The IndexServe platform team has a Software Engineer position to meet your technical expertise.

The IndexServe platform focuses on providing a search and recommendation platform for Microsoft internal partners using the documentation recall and reranking backend service suite. As a team, we manage one of the world’s largest distributed systems and have experienced great success in building efficient large scale distributed systems for search. The IndexServe platform has a per decade rare opportunity to simplify the serving stack, to serve the biggest index with the most efficient way, and to drive up the relevance innovations with advanced deep learning techniques.

Within the IndexServe platform, we are the Index Update team, and we have the exciting responsibility of trying to tackle these challenges. As a team, we are building a globally competitive index. On this platform, the Bing index can be continuously refreshed in a couple of days. 

Responsibilities

We are looking for a passionate platform developer to join us in building a globally competitive index using in-house and open-source technologies. You will be hands-on in a massively scaled and distributed system in production. Our developers design, implement, and rollout features with a data-driven and test-driven methodology. You will have the opportunity to work with cutting-edge cloud and machine learning technologies. Team members are expected to have solid background in:  

• Share accountability of a wide array of assets and be comfortable with learning a broad array of technologies.
• Design and implement features in a distributed environment using data to guide and measure success. 
• Debug and mitigate incidents in live production environments. 
• Participate in regular team scrums and communicate regularly and clearly with team members and leads.  
• Agile service feature development.
• Innovative algorithm design for best performance, latency, scalability, and efficiency.
• Service performance profiling and scaling-up.
• Advanced distributed service debugging.

We are a fast-paced team with product releases every week. If you are self-motivated and want to make a large impact on the cloud serving area, then we are looking forward to meeting you!  

Qualifications

Required/minimum qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline with proven experience coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
  • OR equivalent experience.

• Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field with proven experience coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
  • OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 1+ year(s) technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
  • OR equivalent experience.
• Capable of quantitatively implementing and qualifying a solution in a distributed environment with DevOps model.
• Experience on high performance computing (e.g., cache/memory optimization, fine-grained parallel library and runtime) is a plus.
• Experience in debugging and profiling production distributed systems is a plus. 
• Experience in search system is a plus. 

Software Engineering IC2 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $81,900 - $160,200 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $105,600 - $174,600 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until September 21, 2024.

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