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Principal Software Engineer
Location not specified · Experience not specified
Experience- Experience not specified
Salary- Not disclosed
Location- Location not specified
- Work mode
- Not specified
- Job type
- Full-time
Apply by- Closing date not listed
- Posted
- 12 Sept 33
About this role
Are you looking to work on large-scale websites building a compelling user experience and the frameworks behind the experiences? Are you passionate about modern and responsive web development and using experimentation and analytics to light up those scenarios? Are you interested in enabling recommendations for users in Bing?The Search Technology Center in India is looking for a full-stack developer who can help us build the next set of suggestion experiences in Bing search at web scale. Search engines serve billions of query suggestions 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 creating candidates of best suggestions and ranking them for all Bing enabled traffic, scaling millions per hour, while contributing to the user success with better exploration and faster task completion.
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.
About WWE
WWE organization in Microsoft has the mission of “Make the web work for you”. This team is comprised of several thousand software engineers working on Bing search, Edge browser, Maps, Ads, News, and other projects. Over the years we have developed deep technical expertise in various areas – Machine learning, NLP, speech, computer vision, large scale deployments and continue to innovate and delight customers across 236 regions, 106 languages and with half a billion users. Please watch this short video on our team which will give you an insight on why you should join us.
The WWE Team, is part of Microsoft’s India Development Centre(IDC) in Hyderabad, Bengaluru and Noida (and home offices at cities across the country for the time being). The team is responsible for driving the overall strategy in search and AI Platforms – spanning consumer and enterprise customers. The team’s constant endeavor is to nurture an innovative, inclusive culture to enable one to build finely crafted Search & AI products and grow to be a leader. It is home to one of the largest groups of machine learning and AI talent, not just in IDC, but all of India. Please visit our Instagram page (@lifeatstci) to get a peek into our culture.
Responsibilities
Our ideal candidate will:
- Work on high QPS, low latency online platform to generate high quality and engaging suggestions.
- Be able to think end-to-end from the UX to backend 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
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
- Experience working as a full-stack developer
- Experience working with high QPS services
- Experience with Web frameworks, tools, and methodologies
- Experience with accessibility standards for web applications