Senior Software Engineering Architect

$117,200 - $229,200/Yr

Microsoft - Redmond, WA

Full-time - Senior

Onsite - Redmond, WA

Publishing Industries

About the position

The Senior Software Engineering Architect role focuses on building large-scale distributed systems to enhance search, recommendation, and AI services. The position requires collaboration with ML/AI data scientists to design and develop cutting-edge techniques such as Large Language Models (LLM) and efficient indexing systems. The role is part of the IndexServe team within Bing Fundamental, responsible for creating an agile and performant index serving platform that supports advanced deep learning and machine learning techniques.

Responsibilities

• Perform engineering work on large scale backend services, specifically on the index serving project.
• Excel and adopt agile service development.
• Design innovative algorithms with best performance, latency, scalability, and efficiency.
• Profile service performance for analysis and service scaling-up.
• Collaborate across multiple teams to design and deliver the solution.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field.
• 4+ years of technical engineering experience with coding in languages including C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python.
• Experience with structured query language, tokenization, and text parsing.
• Experience with schema definition and validation tool chain.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience in high performance computing (e.g., cache/memory optimization, fine-grained parallel library and runtime).
• Capability to quantitatively implement and qualify a solution in a distributed environment with DevOps model.
• Experience in building Machine Learning/Deep Learning systems.
• Experience in performance analysis and optimization for both CPU and GPU, as well as a good understanding of software-hardware co-design.

Benefits

• Industry leading healthcare
• Educational resources
• Discount on products and services
• Savings and investment
• Maternity and paternity leave
• Generous time away
• Giving program
• Opportunities to network and connect