Senior Software Engineer

Overview

Are you looking to work on cutting-edge large-scale AI services that can power the next-gen AI search? Are you passionate about modern technologies and latency optimizations and analytics to light up those scenarios?

The Search Technology Center in India is looking for a full-stack developer who can help us build the next gen Grounding solution that can change how the world interacts with AI search. Search engines serve billions of queries per day and generate huge amount of user event data every day. We are a team of engineers and scientists that is tasked with the responsibility of the best Grounding that can help create the most powerful AI search experiences.

As a software engineer on this team, you will be responsible for designing, coding, and owning software and services to enable high performant, delightful search experiences and applications. You will be engineering these solutions while enabling solid engineering practices including CI-CD, automation tooling, and telemetry insights across our endpoints. You will be working in a collaborative and fun environment with peers across disciplines including PMs, designers, developers, and data scientists.

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Responsibilities

• Work on high QPS, low latency online services.
• Be able to think end-to-end to provide the most optimal solutions
• Architect, design and develop secure, scalable, and resilient solutions
• Work closely with design and PM teams, able to collaborate across disciplines
• Mentor other developers on the team. Participate and drive code/design reviews
• Help the team in making decisions on adopting the appropriate technical stack
  
  

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
• OR equivalent experience.
• 5+ years in building online services.
• Experience working as a full-stack developer.
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience as a tech lead driving end-to-end development.
• Experience with releasing 3P APIs.
• Experience with latency optimizations.  
  
  

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This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. 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 with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.