Microsoft · 2 days ago
Software Engineer II
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Responsibilities
Collaborate with other engineers, product managers, data scientists and customers to gather requirements, provide feedback and deliver solutions.
Design and implement new components, features, and enhancements of large scale distributed services.
Optimize and improve the performance, scalability, reliability and security of the software.
Instrument data and develop metrics to measure usage, relevance, customer satisfaction and drive decision making.
Debug and troubleshoot complex live site issues and maintain operations of live service on a rotational, on-call basis.
Work independently on projects, showcasing self-management and problem-solving skills.
You are part of a team that will build the retrieval system (including vector search) with great relevance, performance and cost.
You will contribute to the Microsoft ecosystem around Retrieval Augmented Generation through releasing services that power various generative AI applications.
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Qualification
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Required
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 2+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to C#, Java, C++
OR equivalent experience.
Experiences developing real products that belong to at least one of the following categories: information retrieval, vector database and large language models, or experiences of integrating one of them into production systems.
Experience building and shipping production grade, scalable and high-availability cloud services.
Experiences operating live services and helping customers resolve live issues.
Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings:
Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
Preferred
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C++, C# or Java
OR Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 2+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C++, C# or Java
OR equivalent experience.
Experience in troubleshooting and debugging high-performance backend systems and improving system performance.
Experience in building and operating large scale fault-tolerant distributed systems.
Experience with either online or offline experimentation systems
Company
Microsoft
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H1B Sponsorship
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Funding
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