The Web Experiences Team (WebXT) at Microsoft is accelerating innovation to enable engaging web experience products for every person. As part of the Trustworthy Fundamentals team, we focus on keeping Web and Bing safe for our customers. Doing this at web-scale impacts billions of queries per day and millions of users. If you are excited and passionate about running end to end experiments, creating substantial impact, you will find a home in our team.

We are looking for Software Engineers who are excited to work on solving problems on an internet scale. An ideal candidate will have a good understanding of building distributed systems with a focus on building services and data pipelines. We hire people excited to solve the hard problems, eager to work in a larger team of data scientists and engineers and ready to make an impact on how the web works. 

About WebXT:

WebXT organization in Microsoft has the mission of “Make the web work for you”. This team is comprised of several thousand software engineers working on Bing search, Edge browser, Maps, Ads, News, and other projects. Over the years we have developed deep technical expertise in various areas – Machine learning, NLP, speech, computer vision, large scale deployments and continue to innovate and delight customers across 236 regions, 106 languages and with half a billion users.  Please watch this  short video on our team which will give you an insight on why you should join us.

The WebXT Team in Hyderabad, is part of Microsoft’s India Development Centre(IDC) in Hyderabad (and home offices at cities across the country for the time being). The team is responsible for driving the overall strategy in search and AI Platforms – spanning consumer and enterprise customers. The team’s constant endeavor is to nurture an innovative, inclusive culture to enable one to build finely crafted Search & AI products and grow to be a leader. It is home to one of the largest groups of machine learning and AI talent, not just in IDC, but all of India. â€‹â€‹â€‹â€‹â€‹â€‹â€‹ Please visit our Instagram page   (@lifeatstci)  to get a peek into our culture.

Responsibilities

• Obsession about customer experience
• Design, develop, test, and deploy scalable and always available services which deliver delightful and finely crafted user experiences on Bing.
• Collaborate with different teams across discipline to achieve the above.
• Analyze risks and compromises with various design choices
• Solve problems relating to mission critical services and build automation to prevent problem recurrence
• Identify and fix or drive fixes systemic issues.

Qualifications

• BS degree in Computer Science or equivalent with 4+ years of relevant experience
• Experience with building web experiences and knowing the web technologies
• Excellent software design, coding skills and understanding of OO concepts.
• Excellent communication (verbal and written) and collaboration skills. 
• Great analytical and problem-solving skills, with a strong bias for quality and engineering excellence.
• Passion for new technologies, quality, and customer satisfaction
• Ability to debug and resolve issues spanning multiple subsystems.
• Firm sense of accountability and ownership for end-to-end project lifecycle.
• Ability to provide technical guidance and mentorship.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. 

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