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Senior Software Engineer (Index Build)

Beijing, China (On-site)

Senior Software Engineer (Index Build)

25 Minutes ago • 6-10 Years • Backend Development

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Job Description

The Senior Software Engineer (Index Build) role at Microsoft in Beijing focuses on designing and developing efficient and scalable index build and update systems for Bing's IndexServe component. This core component links offline document processing with online serving, preparing and distributing the search index to all IndexServe machines. The role involves working closely with US-based partner teams to improve the system's performance, scalability, and relevance capabilities. Responsibilities include designing distributed services, optimizing for high-performance computing, and collaborating across multiple teams. Experience with large-scale storage systems and high-performance computing techniques is highly valued.

Must have:

Agile service development
Service performance profiling & scaling
Distributed service design & implementation
C++, C#, Java, Go, or Rust proficiency
Large-scale storage system experience

Good to have:

High-performance computing expertise
Distributed systems experience
Machine Learning/Deep Learning experience

Perks:

Industry leading healthcare
Educational resources
Discounts on products and services
Savings and investments
Maternity and paternity leave
Generous time away
Giving programs
Networking opportunities

Overview

Index Build (IB) is one of the core components of IndexServe in Bing Fundamentals. IB is the link between the offline document processing and the online serving. It prepares and distributes a servable version of the search index to all IndexServe machines. In addition, it provides a persistence layer for data in IndexServe and decouples the backend data processing, layout and format from IS online system.

Qualifications

We are looking for software engineers with a background in:

Agile service feature development.
Service performance profiling and scaling-up; and Distributed service design, implementation, Collaborating across multiple teams to design and deliver the solutions.

Required/minimum qualifications

Bachelor'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#, Java, Go or Rust
OR equivalent experience.

Additional or preferred qualifications
Master'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#, Java, Go or Rust
OR Bachelor'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#, Java, Go or Rust
OR equivalent experience.
Experience on large scale storage system
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.
Experience on building Machine Learning/Deep Learning systems is a plus.

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Responsibilities

As a senior engineer in IB, you will work closely with the partner teams in US to design and develop efficient and scalable index build and index update systems. The modern IB systems will facilitate the experiments for relevance.

Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.

Industry leading healthcare

Educational resources

Discounts on products and services

Savings and investments

Maternity and paternity leave

Generous time away

Giving programs

Opportunities to network and connect

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