Are you an experienced backend engineer with a passion for building large scale distributed systems to enable more innovations on the search, recommendation, and AI services and products? Are you passionate about working as a tech leader to architect and drive cutting-edge techniques such as LLM, Ranking, Index Serving in large scale like 100K+ nodes by collaborating with ML/AI data scientists? Bing IndexServe team has a Principal Architect position to meet your technical expertise.
Bing Fundamentals focuses on providing a search and recommendation platform for Microsoft internal partners using the documentation recall and reranking backend service suite. As a team, we manage one of the world’s largest distributed systems and have experienced great success in building efficient large scale distributed systems for search. Now, the team has a per decade rare opportunity to simplify the serving stack, to serve the biggest index in the most efficient way, and to drive up the relevance innovations with advanced deep learning and Large Language model techniques. The agility of engineering and deployment also presents as a big challenge when handling such a complex system. As Bing embraces the newest LLM innovations, the need for IndexServe to build up AI intelligence is becoming bigger.
Within Bing Fundamentals, we are the IndexServe team, and we have the exciting responsibility of trying to tackle these challenges. As a team, we are trying to build the most agile, performant, stable, experientable yet efficient index serving platform. On this platform, relevance techniques can be quickly implemented, iterated, qualified and flighted to evaluate their customer impacts with convenience while full-funnel debuggability. The same platform also provides all the cutting edged techniques and utilities, like deep learning, machine learning, LLM, C# rankers. It has the most advanced AI toolset for our scientists to innovate, and for our products to serve the most relevant documents.
Responsibilities
- Rich backend serving knowledge and experience with big-picture of large scale service design.
- Agile service development.
- Innovative algorithm design for best performance, latency, scalability, and efficiency.
- Service performance profiling and scaling-up.
- Collaborating across multiple teams to design and deliver the solutions.
Qualifications
Required/minimum qualifications
- 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.
Additional or preferred qualifications
- Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 10+ 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 12+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
- OR equivalent experience.
- Experience on high-performance computing (e.g., cache/memory optimization, high-performance GPU programming, compiler-based optimization, fine-grained parallel library, and runtime) or distributed systems (e.g., communication optimization, network architecture design, network programming) is a plus.
- Capable of quantitatively implementing and qualifying a solution in a distributed environment with DevOps model.
- Experiences on building Machine Learning/Deep Learning systems is a plus.
- Experience on performance analysis and optimization for both CPUs and GPUs, as well as good understanding on software-hardware codesign, is a plus.
Software Engineering IC6 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $161,600 - $286,200 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 $209,600 - $314,400 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
Microsoft will accept applications for the role until September 20, 2024.
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