Microsoft is building a planet-scale multi-modal database from the ground up and needs a Senior Software Engineer to lead and collaborate with a team of passionate engineers to drive ideas to impactful results in a fast-paced environment.
Requirements
- 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).
- Familiarity with graph-based indexing and vector similarity search in high-dimensional spaces.
- Experience in systems-level software engineering with a focus on database internals, including query execution, indexing, and storage engine design.
- Proficiency in performance tuning and latency-sensitive system design, especially in large-scale distributed data platforms.
- Experience with Helm.
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.
- Embody our culture and values.
Other
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience
- Travel 0-25%
- 3 days/week in-office
- Full-Time employment
- Must be willing to work in Redmond, Washington, United States
