Senior Software Engineer

Do you want to be part of a team which delivers innovative products and machine learning solutions across Microsoft to tens of millions of users every month? Does the opportunity to join a fast-paced, high visibility, diverse team in a highly competitive market sound exciting to you? If so, this Software Engineer role with the Microsoft Turing team may be a great fit for you! 

The Microsoft Turing team is an innovative engineering and research team working on state-of-the-art deep learning models and works on projects across the entire deep learning life-cycle. Within the Microsoft Turing team, we are a fast-paced, high impact and hardcore experience team, who is responsible for building cutting edge frontend stacks for Microsoft Copilot and Bing search and realize what the great capabilities that cutting-edge machine learning is able to provide. In addition, the team also works on improving experiences across Microsoft’s products and services by working on high value scenarios. 

As a member of the Microsoft Turing team, you will have a direct impact on the quality of the products which in turn determines the experience of millions of users every day. You will learn many cutting edge technologies in Bing core UX framework, scalable business layer framework, A/B testing framework, and working with teams of distributed systems, data mining, machine learning to solve hard problems. You will have enormous resources of Microsoft at your disposal and close collaborations with great teams and colleagues in world-wide. At the same time you have the right environment and strong support to drive your favorite features to solution. We are an extremely agile team and we move very fast from ideas to experimentation, development and deployment through continuous releases throughout the year.

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

Responsibilities

• Driving projects from design through implementation, experimentation and finally shipping to our users.
• Understand scenarios, challenges, and issues in a feature area. Propose design, solutions, mitigations, and be responsible for metric-driven result.
• Work independently to implement, flight and ship features to different canvases and have impact on key metrics.
• Innovate feature ideas, analyze opportunities through data mining of Bing logs and user study.
• Understand all the metrics, able to get insights of what happened from real traffic scorecard, and come up with improvement plan.
• Build dashboard and online tests to monitor mainstreamed features’ coverage, performance and availability.
• Collaboration with internal and external partner teams globally.

Qualifications

Required Qualifiations

• 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++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
  • OR equivalent experience

• Experience in architecture, design, coding, and debugging skills.

• Hands-on experience with at least one language: C++/C#/Java. Previous experience with UX development on different frontend framework will be a plus.
• Great design, problem solving, and data analysis skills, with demonstrated passion for quality, performance, and engineering excellence.
• Motivated and able to work independently as well in a collaborative team setting to research innovative solutions to challenging technical/business problems.

Preferred 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
• At least 8 years of industry experiences with one or more of the following: large scale of Web development, App development, Distributed Systems and/or Information Retrieval, with coding experience in C++, C#, TypeScript, JavaScript, or Java.
• Good communication skills in English are preferred.

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. 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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