Microsoft

Senior Software Engineer

Microsoft$119K — $234K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field with 4+ years of coding experience in languages like C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python.
  • Master's Degree in Computer Science or related field with 6+ years of coding experience, or 8+ years with a Bachelor's Degree.
  • Experience in building large-scale distributed software systems.
  • Strong understanding of modern software engineering practices.
  • Proficient in developing modular, secure, and maintainable software components.

Responsibilities

  • Design and develop extensive distributed software services following modern engineering practices.
  • Collaborate with stakeholders to gather user requirements and design documents.
  • Perform comprehensive system design with clearly defined interfaces.
  • Introduce best practices in software engineering ensuring reliability and maintainability.
  • Enhance test coverage and devise integration testing strategies.
  • Troubleshoot and optimize systems for reliability and performance.
  • Support and embody the organizational culture and values.

Benefits

  • Access to innovative technology and cutting-edge projects.
  • Opportunity to impact millions of users through feature implementation.
  • Collaboration with a diverse team of experts.
  • Potential for continued professional development and growth.
  • Engagement in an AI-driven industry that values data.
Full Job Description
Overview

Join our innovative Web Data Platform Team as a Senior Software Engineer and help us revolutionize the future of web document processing and rendering!

At Web Data Document Processing & Rendering team, you'll play a key role in building cutting-edge batch and streaming systems as part of our platform that powers Bing Search and Microsoft AI training scenarios, empowers data scientists to seamlessly integrate their machine learning models, driving transformative insights at massive scale. Here you will be working with eye-popping scales, processing tens of billions of documents per day and managing hundreds of petabytes of data. The opportunity to make an impact on millions of users with each feature you ship is truly motivating.

In today's AI-driven world, where data is more valuable than ever, we're embarking on an exciting mission to elevate our platform, scaling it even further to unlock new possibilities and serve a growing array of use cases and customers. If you're passionate about building high-performance systems that shape the future of data processing, this is the place for you!

Responsibilities
  • Design and develop large-scale distributed software services and solutions following modern software engineering practices through design and code reviews.
  • Collaborate with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a scenario, drive identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for a product, application, service, or platform.
  • Perform system design with well-defined interfaces across multiple components, leveraging data/telemetry to inform decisions.
  • Develop best-in-class engineering for our services, ensuring components are modular, secure, reliable, testable, diagnosable, maintainable, actively monitored, and reusable.
  • Improve test coverage, organize and implement integration tests, and resolve problem areas.
  • Troubleshoot and optimize automation, reliability, and monitoring for Live Site.
  • Embody our culture and values


Qualifications

Required Qualifications:
  • 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.


Preferred Qualifications:
  • 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
    • OR 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.


#MicrosoftAI

Software Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $119,800 - $234,700 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $160,200 - $261,000 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:
https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

About Microsoft

Microsoft is an American multinational corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services. Microsoft’s devices and consumer (D&C) licensing segment licenses the Windows operating system and related software, Microsoft Office for consumers, and the Windows Phone operating system. The company’s computing and gaming hardware segment provides Xbox gaming and entertainment consoles and accessories, second-party and third-party video games, and Xbox Live subscriptions; surface devices and accessories; and Microsoft PC accessories. Its phone hardware segment offers Lumia smartphones and other non-Lumia phones. Its D&C segment provides Windows Store, Xbox Live transactions, and Windows phone store; search advertising; display advertising; Office 365 Home and Office 365 Personal; first-party video games; and other consumer products and services as well as operating retail stores. Microsoft’s commercial licensing segments license server products, including Windows Server, Microsoft SQL Server, Visual Studio, System Center, and related Client Access Licenses (CALs); Windows Embedded; Windows operating system; Microsoft Office for business, including Office, Exchange, SharePoint, Lync, and related CALs; Microsoft Dynamics business solutions; and Skype. Its commercial segment offers enterprise services, including premier support services and Microsoft consulting services; commercial cloud comprising Office 365 Commercial, other Microsoft Office online offerings, Dynamics CRM Online, and Microsoft Azure; and other commercial products and online services. The company markets and distributes its products through original equipment manufacturers, distributors, and resellers, as well as online.

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Net Income
$51.3 billion
Founded
1975
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