Software Engineer
Microsoft
The ObjectStore team - part of the Bing Fundamentals organization, is hiring a Backend Software Engineer II in Beijing, China to help build our core cloud platform.
Today more than ever, cloud services empower people around the world to achieve more. Behind every innovative experience is a critical layer of cloud infrastructure that brings these services to life.
ObjectStore provides the core serving platform that powers Bing and has expanded to support key Microsoft products including Azure, Office, SharePoint, Microsoft Teams, and more. It supports end‑user scenarios such as web search, social discovery, local deal exploration, and personal assistants. ObjectStore now operates over 10,000+ storage tables worldwide, serving 350+ partner teams across the company.
Over time, ObjectStore has evolved from a low‑latency key‑value store into a rich, feature‑complete serving platform. It now supports secondary indexing, full‑text search, machine‑learning inference, graph traversal, and general computation hosting. We learn from—and compete with—leading NoSQL, indexing, graph, and deep‑learning serving technologies in the industry. These domains represent some of the most exciting and impactful areas in modern cloud infrastructure.
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.
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Responsibilities
Required Qualifications:
- 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, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
- OR equivalent experience.
- 2+ years of experience programming in C++, C#, or another object‑oriented language.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience in search system is a plus.
- Experience in distributed key-value store or inverted-index is a plus.
- Experience in debugging and profiling production distributed systems is a plus.
- A passion for distributed platform development.
- Able to quantitatively evaluate, implement and verify a solution in a distributed environment, using simulation, testing, counters, logging, and other methodologies.
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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.
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