Overview
The Fundamentals platform team is seeking software engineers to help build large scale systems that are high-throughput, low-latency and can be shipped multiple times a day. Fundamentals engineers are the best customer-advocates, experienced in multiple technologies, and are skilled in the fundamentals of highly scalable systems. If you take joy in improving performance by a millisecond or dream about scaling a service instance to hundreds of thousands of RPS, you should apply.
As an engineer on the Fundamentals team, you will work on building our next-generation platform that powers all the online experiences for Search. You will work with engineers across different parts of the organization to make their services more reliable and performant. Apart from learning through technical challenges on our team, you will get to contribute to complex systems that power some of the biggest online services for search, maps, and advertising on the planet.
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Responsibilities
- Building highly scalable, highly available services that get deployed across the world
- Working with partner teams that deliver experiences like search, advertising, enterprise search and deliver platform-level features across all of them
- Design, write and implement services with performance, efficiency, re-usability, and maintainability as core focus
- Leverage AI to build tools that help improve productivity
- Develop systems and toolsets that work across multiple orchestrators, source control, and build systems (ADO and GitHub)
- Mentor engineers in the team by providing hands-on assistance, best practices, and promoting an inclusive learning environment
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 OR equivalent experience.
- Familiarity with Web technology and Search engines and large scalable systems.
- System level design and architectural understanding.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience working on large scalable, high performant systems will be an advantage.
- Experience with ASP.NET.
- Good understanding HTTP protocol and Networking basics.
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines like Azure DevOps, GitHub Workflow etc.
- Ability to deal with ambiguity to prioritize issues.
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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
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