Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft

Redmond, Washington, United States -

Full Time

Start Date

Immediate

Expiry Date

23 Feb, 26

Salary

0.0

Posted On

25 Nov, 25

Experience

5 year(s) or above

Remote Job

Yes

Telecommute

Yes

Sponsor Visa

Skills

C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Python, Cloud Technologies, Asynchronous Programming, Concurrency, Database Internals, Performance Tuning, Vector Indexing, ANN Search, Open-Source Contributions, Systems-Level Software Engineering, Monitoring

Industry

Software Development

Description

- This will be an individual contributor role with the majority of time focused on coding responsibilities. - Collaborates with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a scenario. - Drives identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for a product, application, service, or platform. - Creates, implements, optimizes, debugs, refactors, and reuses code to establish and improve performance and maintainability, effectiveness, and return on investment (ROI). - Leverages subject-matter expertise of product features and partners with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project managers) to drive a workgroup's project plans, release plans, and work items. - Acts as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) and guides other engineers by developing and following the playbook, working on call to monitor system/product/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions, alerting stakeholders about status and initiates actions to restore system/product/service for simple and complex problems when appropriate. - Proactively seeks new knowledge and adapts to new trends, technical solutions, and patterns that will improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while also driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale. - 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. - 1+ year(s) experience with cloud technologies, including, but not limited to Azure, AWS, Google Cloud. - Currently programming/coding in your current or most recent role. - Hands on experience with asynchronous programming and concurrency (threads, tasks, futures, async/await). - 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 Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python - Familiarity with graph-based indexing and vector similarity search in high-dimensional spaces. - Contributions to open-source projects or published research in the areas of ANN (Approximate Nearest Neighbor) search or database systems. - Experience in systems-level software engineering with a focus on database internals, including query execution, indexing, and storage engine design. - Understanding of vector indexing techniques, particularly DiskANN (Disk-based Approximate Nearest Neighbor) and SPANN (Scalable Product Approximate Nearest Neighbor), with hands-on experience implementing or optimizing these algorithms in production environments. - Proficiency in performance tuning and latency-sensitive system design, especially in large-scale distributed data platforms. Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.

Responsibilities

The Senior Software Engineer will focus primarily on coding responsibilities while collaborating with stakeholders to determine user requirements. They will also drive the development of design documents and guide other engineers in maintaining system performance and reliability.