Software Engineer

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Company: Microsoft

Location: Redmond, WA 98052

Description:

Are you an experienced backend engineer with a passion for building large scale distributed systems to enable more innovations on the search, recommendation, and AI services and products? Are you passionate about working as a cutting-edge techniques such as LLM, Ranking, Index Serving in large scale like 100K+ nodes by collaborating with ML/AI data scientists? Are you excited when you leverage above techniques to impact millions or billions of end-user to improve their search experiences? Bing IndexServe team have a Software engineer position to meet your technical expertise .

Bing Fundamentals 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. Now, the team has a per decade rare opportunity to simplify the serving stack, to serve the biggest index in the most efficient way, and to drive up the relevance innovations with advanced deep learning and Large Language model (LLM) techniques. The agility of engineering and deployment also presents as a big challenge when handling such a complex system. As Bing embraces the newest LLM innovations, the need for IndexServe to build up AI intelligence is becoming bigger .

Within Bing Fundamentals, we are the IndexServe team, and we have the exciting responsibility of trying to tackle these challenges. As a team, we are trying to build the most agile, performant, stable, experientable yet efficient index serving platform. On this platform, relevance techniques can be quickly implemented, iterated, qualified and flighted to evaluate their customer impacts with convenience while full-funnel debuggability. The same platform also provides all the cutting edged techniques and utilities, like deep learning, machine learning, LLM, C# rankers. It has the most advanced AI toolset for our scientists to innovate, and for our products to serve the most relevant documents.

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 software Engineer to help on
  • Design, implement and test features and fix bugs on critical services in Bing Search Stack.
  • Collaborate various teams to deliver new project in agility to improve Bing Search relevance.
  • Acts as a Designed Responsible Individual (DRI) working on call to monitor system/production feature and service, ensure the system healthiness , and work with stakeholders to mitigate any live site issues in the owning services.
  • Continuously improving Bing fundamentals efficiency, performance, and scalability.
  • Quick learner and team player


Qualifications:

Required Qualifications:
  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 2+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
    • OR equivalent experience.
Preferred Qualifications:
  • Profound knowledge in C++ is preferred.
  • Experience in developing and shipping online services in large distributional system s .
  • Expe rience in LLM inferencing service is a big plus.
  • Experience in service performance profiling, scaling up.
  • On-hand devops and live debugg ing experiences.
Software Engineering IC3 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $98,300 - $193,200 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 $127,200 - $208,800 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 19, 2024.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form .

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