Senior Software Engineer
Microsoft
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Responsibilities
As a Senior Software Engineer in the platform team, you will build and maintain our distributed build & deployment system that underpins highly scaled and latency sensitive applications like Bing, Microsoft News and Advertising to name a few. You will work with engineers and product managers from across various parts of the organization to improve developer experience at scale.
- Build highly scalable, highly available services that get deployed across the world.
- Collaborate with partner teams that deliver experiences like multimedia search, advertising, enterprise search, to deliver platform-level features across all of them.
- Design, write and implement services with performance, efficiency, re-usability, and maintainability as core focus.
- Develop systems and toolsets that work across multiple orchestrators, source control, and build systems (ADO and GitHub).
- Mentor engineers in the team by providing hands-on assistance, best practices, and promoting an inclusive learning environment.
- Contribute to several Open-Source projects we work with.
The team values diversity of background and perspective. We seek to learn and grow in everything we do.
Qualifications
Required 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.
- OR equivalent experience.
- 8+ years of experience writing code (C/C++, C#, Java) for large-scale systems.
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines like Azure DevOps, GitHub Workflow, or equivalents.
- Familiarity with Windows and Linux/Unix operating systems.
- Experience designing storage systems in MS SQL, Cassandra, or Cosmos DB.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Practical knowledge of Azure services.
- Demonstrated engineering rigor and desire to eliminate manual work
- Knowledge of build systems – MSBuild, CMake, Clang, etc.
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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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