The WebXT Fundamentals team is seeking software engineers to help build customer-facing systems that are high-throughput, low-latency and can be shipped multiple times a day. Fundamentals engineers are the best customer-advocates, experienced in multiple technologies, and are skilled in the fundamentals of highly distributed systems. If you take joy in improving performance by a millisecond, or dream about scaling a service instance to hundreds of thousands of RPS, you should apply.

As an engineer on the Fundamentals team, you will work on building our next-generation front-end layer that powers all the online experiences for Search, Microsoft News, Advertising, and the Edge Browser. You will work with engineers across different parts of the organization to make their services more reliable and performant. Apart from learning through technical challenges on our team, you will get to contribute to complex systems that power some of the biggest online services for search, maps, and advertising on the planet.

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, is part of Microsoft’s India Development Centre(IDC) in Hyderabad, Bengaluru and Noida (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

• Building highly scalable, highly available services that get deployed across the world
• Working 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)
• Contribute to several Open-Source projects we work with
• Closely work with the .NET Core team to optimize performance and with teams behind Azure Kubernetes Service to help deploy and run extremely large services

 The team values diversity of background and perspective. We seek to learn and grow in everything we do.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience writing code (C/C++, C#, Java) for large-scale systems
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines like Azure DevOps, GitHub Workflow etc.
• Familiarity with Windows and *nix operating systems

 Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelors or master’s degree in computer science or other advanced sciences
• Ability to deal with ambiguity to prioritize issues
• Exposure to Kubernetes and CNCF-friendly proxies like Envoy, Istio etc.
• Experience with ASP.NET
• Good understanding of UX frameworks and HTTP protocol basics

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.  We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.

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