Principal Software Engineer Post by Microsoft

March 17, 2024
Principal Software Engineer Post by Microsoft

Job Description

Date posted: Mar 15, 2024

Work site: Up to 50% work from home

Travel: 0-25 %

Role type: Individual Contributor

Profession: Software Engineering

Discipline: Software Engineering

Employment type: Full-Time

Overview: 

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.

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
  • Experience working as a full-stack developer

Preferred qualification: 

  • Experience working with high QPS services
  • Experience with Web frameworks, tools, and methodologies
  • Experience with accessibility standards for web applications

By applying to this role, you will be considered for addiotnal role with similar qualifiocation.

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