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Posted date: Sep 30, 2024
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Category: Software Engineering
Location: Redmond, WA
Estimated salary: $215,800
Range: $137,600 - $294,000
Employment type: Full-Time
Travel amount: 25.0%
Work location type: Up to 50% work from home
Role: Individual Contributor
Description
Bing Image & Video Search team powers compelling experiences in Bing and other products in Microsoft. Our media search experiences are backed with an index of billions of images & videos from the web, State of the Art (SOTA) AI models for ranking and a powerful infrastructure for serving the experience with the highest quality & low latency. Search has evolved over the years and has grown in scale, starting with plain text as query to using voice and ultimately using multi-modality as input. Deep understanding of image content, concepts and entities in each image helps power exploration and insightful rich experiences to help users complete their tasks.We are currently seeking a Principal Software Engineer, who will help shape the future of our media search experiences. As a part of the team owing to the infrastructure that can enable these experiences, you will have a great opportunity to learn on big data & distributed systems, drive innovation with open source/home grown frameworks with latency, cost, and availability as the key governing pivots.
Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.
Partners with appropriate stakeholders to determine requirements for a set of scenarios. Leads identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for a product, application, service, or platform. Leads by example and mentors others to produce extensible and maintainable code used across products. Leverages subject-matter expertise of cross-product features with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project managers) to drive multiple group's project plans, release plans, and work items. Holds accountability as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI), mentoring engineers across products/solutions, working on-call to monitor system/product/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions. Proactively seeks new knowledge and adapts to new trends, technical solutions, and patterns that will improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while also driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale and shares knowledge with other engineers.
Qualifications
Required/Minimum 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.
Additional or Preferred Qualifications
Knowledge of various design patterns and practices. Experience with Hadoop, Spark, Kafka will be a plus Good communication skills and ability to work in collaborative environment. Self-motivation with passion to deliver good experiences to users. Embracing engineering excellence and delivering results at scale with quality.
Software Engineering IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $137,600 - $267,000 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 $180,400 - $294,000 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 Microsoft will accept applications for the role until October 14, 2024.
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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