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Microsoft · 8 hours ago

Principal Software Engineer

United States

Full-time

Remote

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$162K/yr - $286K/yr

8+ years exp

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Responsibilities

The IC3 media team is responsible for the research and development of the core real time media stack components enabling the Skype and Teams family products to work across the variety of platforms as well as enabling highly scalable media servers running in the cloud.

We are looking for a talented developer with interest and potentials in building highly reliable and scalable network services, highly dependable mission critical meeting/calling products as well as applying large data and machine learning techniques for competitive innovations.

You will be designing and implementing the client and server media streaming/communication components, interfacing with other teams in Teams/Skype to improve and extend existing functionalities, analyzing production telemetry for areas of improvements, and working with the partner teams on improvements in testing and benchmarking the core media services.

Qualification

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CC++C#Multi-threaded systemsReal-time media programmingReal-time Transport Protocol (RTP)Secure RTP (SRTP)RTP Control Protocol (RTCP)HTTP Live Streaming (HLS)Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP (DASH)WebRTCBig data techniquesMachine learning techniquesUnit testingTest-Driven Development (TDD)Agile methodologiesSystem software understanding

Required

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++, or C# OR equivalent experience.

5+ years of experience with programming for networking, multi-threaded systems, and/or real time media.

Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role.

Preferred

Demonstrated understanding of system software including OS (operating system) and networking.

Hands-on experience with real time communication protocols like Real-time Transport Protocol(RTP)/Secure RTP (SRTP)/RTP Control Protocol (RTCP).

Hands-on experience with streaming protocols like HTTP(Hypertext Transfer Protocol) Live Streaming (HLS)/Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP (DASH)/Web Real-Time Communication (WebRTC) stack.

Application of big data, machine learning techniques to improve systems.

Practitioner of the latest engineering methodologies; Unit testing, Test-Driven Development (TDD), Agile etc.

Company

Microsoft

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Microsoft is a software corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.

Founded in 1975

Redmond, Washington, USA

10001+ employees

https://www.microsoft.com

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