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Principal Software Engineer - Microsoft

Remote ยท Bellevue, United States
Skills:
c# rest python spark

Who are we?

We are the Microsoft Search and Intelligence (MSAI) team, the engine that powers Office 365 and many other critical products within Microsoft Cloud. Microsoft Search, Assistant and Intelligence (MSAI) unites multiple research disciplines with engineering to innovate within the products that millions of people use every day. Wherever users are in Microsoft applications, we anticipate their needs and assist them in being more productive. MSAI is responsible for connecting Office 365 users to the knowledge and expertise across their organization helping them to be more productive and save time. Microsoft / MSAI wants to assist users with productivity tasks that are more easily accomplished through natural language conversation. To be able to do so, we want to save time by surfacing personalized insights, recommendations, and task completion in the flow. We work in areas including machine learning, information retrieval, data mining, natural language processing, and human computer interaction.

Do you like to work on the hardest problems in computing with the biggest user impact?  

As a Principal Software Engineer on this team, you will work with a team of super talented engineers across geographies along with Product Managers , Designers, and Architects to build enterprise grade services with razor sharp focus on improving reliability, security and operational efficiency. You will be empowered to drive innovation by coming up with new and exciting ideas to creatively solve issues, as well as actively look for opportunities to improve the design, interface, and architecture of O365 micro-services. You will lead others by exemplifying technical excellence, inclusiveness, teamwork, and customer focus. You will support customers in a live site, dev ops model.

If You Are

  • Leader: Excellent solution design skills, Inspire and enable distributed teams of senior engineers
  • Experienced Professional:
  • Strong coding skills in C#, Python or equivalent
  • Good knowledge of data structures and algorithms
  • Solid understanding of engineering and data platform best practices
  • Understanding of scalability and reliability concerns for data-intensive applications
  • Customer obsession and passion for shipping high quality products
  • Flexibility, adaptability, penchant to learn and toy with various other products
  • Innovative: have that unique viewpoint to solve problems that make others build energy working with you
  • Collaborative & Communicative:
  • Exceptional communication skills, and articulate technical concepts into easy-to-understand language for business partners
  • Effectively brainstorm, encourage ideation process
  • Understand the implications of complex business, legal, and regulatory issues on technology and technical deliverables
  • Mentor other engineers in the team

Preferred:

  • Effective collaboration skills with multiple cross-functional teams across geographies
  • Experience with cloud computing platforms
  • Prior experience with building end-to-end Machine Learning pipelines
  • Exposure and experience in security, privacy, scalability, reliability, and compliance aspects
  • Expertise in big data technologies like Hadoop, Spark, Hive, etc.

then we are waiting for you to join us on the exciting journey!We’d love to talk to you.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent, 
  • 10+ years of experience in an engineering role, with a proven track record of delivering complex products and services
  • Experience crafting and implementing highly scalable and performant RESTful micro-services
  • Proficiency in any modern object-oriented programming language
  • Familiarity with cloud architecture patterns and an engineering discipline to produce software with quality

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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Published on: 11/30/2022
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