Are you a Senior Software Engineer who thrives in a cutting-edge environment where you get to work with some of the largest data volumes processing? Are you excited to craft the most reliable data processing pipelines with Spark and Flink to process PiB level data every day? Are you passionate about using artificial intelligence tools and practices across the software development lifecycle and data processing?
The Data and Insight team in Search Foundation organization leverages open-source technology to process our petabyte scale data of Bing and MSN logs and provide comprehensive insight into experiments. The team also supports the grounding business with Realtime signals and insight information and protects the Bing search through offline bot protection analysis and model training.
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Responsibilities
You are a seasonal leader in building scalable data analytics/insights platform with PiB level data processing every day. You have a growth mindset to learn the cut-edge technology and apply it in daily work to change the status quo. You dive deep and resolve the challenging technical problem. You insist on the highest standard for system performance and reliability. You will be working on Bing mission critical analytical data and support the grounding business; processing at big data scale and need for generating real-time insights. You will be working in a hybrid technology space that combines the best from Azure and open-source world. Other responsibilities may include:
- Design, build and own the optimal data processing architecture and systems for new data and analytics pipelines, dashboards and metrics leveraging Azure and open-source technologies
- Build core datasets as well as scalable and fault-tolerant pipelines
- Build data anomaly detection, data quality checks, and optimize pipelines for ideal compute and storage systems while guaranteeing high quality and SLA datasets
- Understand the data compliance and data governance
- Collaborate with cross functional partners including data scientists and product managers to design and develop end-to-end data assets that help improve our products.
- Hand on at least one data process technology like Spark, Flink, and message queue technology like Kafka, EventHub
- Hand on data storage technology like HDFS, Azure blob etc
- Leverage AI technology in coding/testing/Data processing/data validation.
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 Qualification:
- 6+ years of experience in one or more coding languages (C#, C++, Java)
- Familiar at least one data process technology like Spark, Flink, and message queue technology like Kafka, EventHub
- Have experience on cloud environment like Azure
- Have experience on data storage technology like HDFS, Azure blob etc
- Have experience in leveraging AI technology in coding or testing work.
- Fluence verbal and written English communication.
- 6+ years’ experience in backend service development, 2+ years’ experience in batch or streaming data processing to process the PiB level data.
- Domain expert on Spark or Flink to handle PiB level data every day.
- Experience in data pipeline performance optimization
- Experience to use AI in data processing and data validation
- Data compliance or governance experience is a plus
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.
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Skills Required
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience.
- 6+ years of experience in one or more coding languages (C#, C++, Java).
- Familiarity with at least one data processing technology like Spark or Flink.
- Experience with message queue technology like Kafka or EventHub.
- Experience on cloud environments such as Azure.
- Experience with data storage technologies like HDFS and Azure Blob.
- Experience leveraging AI technology in coding, testing, or data validation.
- Fluency in verbal and written English.
- 6+ years' experience in backend service development.
- 2+ years' experience in batch or streaming data processing at PiB scale.
- Domain expertise in Spark or Flink to handle PiB-level data daily.
- Experience in data pipeline performance optimization.
- Data compliance or governance experience.
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