Overview
Join our innovative Web Data Platform Team as a PrincipalSoftware Engineer and help us revolutionize the future of web document processing and rendering!
At Web Data Document Processing & Rendering team, you'll play a key role in building cutting-edge batch and streaming systems as part of our platform that powers Bing Search and Microsoft AI training scenarios, empowers data scientists to seamlessly integrate their machine learning models, driving transformative insights at massive scale. Here you will be working with eye-popping scales, processing tens of billions of documents per day and managing hundreds of petabytes of data. The opportunity to make an impact on millions of users with each feature you ship is truly motivating.
In today's AI-driven world, where data is more valuable than ever, we're embarking on an exciting mission to elevate our platform, scaling it even further to unlock new possibilities and serve a growing array of use cases and customers. If you're passionate about building high-performance systems that shape the future of data processing, this is the place for you!
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Responsibilities
- Design and develop large-scale distributed software services and solutions following modern software engineering practices through design and code reviews.
- Collaborate with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a scenario, drive identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for a product, application, service, or platform.
- Perform system design with well-defined interfaces across multiple components, leveraging data/telemetry to inform decisions.
- Develop best-in-class engineering for our services, ensuring components are modular, secure, reliable, testable, diagnosable, maintainable, actively monitored, and reusable.
- Improve test coverage, organize and implement integration tests, and resolve problem areas.
- Troubleshoot and optimize automation, reliability, and monitoring for Live Site.
- Embody our culture and values.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications:
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ 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:
Master'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 Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 12+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
- OR equivalent experience.
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Software Engineering IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $142,800.00 - $274,800.00 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 $188,000.00 - $304,200.00 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
Software Engineering IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $142,800 - $274,800 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 $188,000 - $304,200 per year.
Certain roles may be el.igible for benefits and other compensation Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay
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.**