Microsoft's Bing Fundamentals team seeks a Software Engineer 2 to contribute to their Core Search platform.  This role involves designing and building large-scale, low-latency, high-reliability services for search, recommendation, and AI.  Responsibilities include service performance profiling, scaling, advanced debugging, and collaboration with multiple teams.  The ideal candidate has experience with object-oriented languages (C++ preferred), high-performance computing, or large-scale distributed systems.  They will work on implementing and qualifying solutions in a distributed environment using a DevOps model, leveraging cutting-edge techniques like LLMs and AIGC to improve search relevance and build an efficient index serving platform.

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<div class="ms-Stack css-418"><h3 style="font-weight: 600; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px; color: rgb(23, 23, 23);">Overview</h3><div><p style="margin: 0px;">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 on drive and deliver the cutting-edge techniques such as LLM, AIGC by collaborating with AI data scientists? Bing IndexServe platform team have a Software Engineer 2 position to meet your technical expertise. <br>Bing Fundamentals team 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. Bing Fundamentals team has a per decade rare opportunity to simplify the serving stack, to serve the biggest index with 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 latest LLM innovations, the need for a platform to build up AI intelligence is becoming bigger. <br>Within Bing Fundamentals, we are the IndexServe selection 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 convenient while full-funnel debuggability. The same platform also provides all the cutting edged techniques and utilities, it has the most advanced AI toolset for our scientists to innovate, and for our products to serve most relevant documents.</p></div></div> <div class="ms-Stack css-418"><h3 style="font-weight: 600; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px; color: rgb(23, 23, 23);">Qualifications</h3><div><p style="margin: 0px;">Required Qualifications: <br>• BS/MS in Computer Science, or equivalent experience<br>• 3+ years industrial experiences on an Object-Oriented Language, such as C++ (preferred), C#, or Java</p><p style="margin: 0px;">Preferred Qualifications:<br>• Experience on high-performance computing (e.g. cache/memory optimization, high-performance GPU programming, compiler-based optimization, fine-grained parallel library and runtime) or large-scale distributed systems (e.g., communication optimization, network architecture design, network programming) is a plus.<br>• Capable of quantitatively implementing and qualifying a solution in a distributed environment with DevOps model<br>• Experience on Search/Ads/Recommendation areas is a plus<br>• Experience on performance analysis and optimization for both CPUs and GPUs, as well as good understanding on software-hardware codesign, is a plus.</p><p style="margin: 0px;">&nbsp;</p><p style="margin: 0px;"><span></span></p></div></div> <div class="ms-Stack css-418"><h3 style="font-weight: 600; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px; color: rgb(23, 23, 23);">Responsibilities</h3><div><p style="margin: 0px;">We are looking for motivated talents to build Core Search platform. You need to:<br>• Design services at large scale, low latency, high reliability, low cost to maintain and operate.<br>• Service performance profiling and scaling-up.<br>• Advanced distributed service debugging. <br>• Collaborating across multiple teams to design and deliver the solutions.</p></div></div> <div class="ms-Stack css-418" style="padding: 30px 0px; font-size: 14px;"><div class="ms-Stack css-418" style="padding: 0px 0px 30px;"><span>Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.</span></div><div><div class="KDE7kZPL_kjXdvl00Oro"><span><i data-icon-name="Medical" role="img" aria-label="Industry leading healthcare" class="ms-Icon root-32 css-568 css-330" style="font-family: FabricMDL2Icons-4;"></i>Industry leading healthcare</span></div><div class="KDE7kZPL_kjXdvl00Oro"><span><i data-icon-name="Education" role="img" aria-label="Educational resources" class="ms-Icon root-32 css-570 css-330" style="font-family: FabricMDL2Icons-1;"></i>Educational resources</span></div><div class="KDE7kZPL_kjXdvl00Oro"><span><i data-icon-name="Tag" role="img" aria-label="Discounts on products and services" class="ms-Icon root-32 css-393 css-330" style="font-family: FabricMDL2Icons;"></i>Discounts on products and services</span></div><div class="KDE7kZPL_kjXdvl00Oro"><span><i data-icon-name="Money" role="img" aria-label="Savings and investments" class="ms-Icon root-32 css-568 css-330" style="font-family: FabricMDL2Icons-4;"></i>Savings and investments</span></div><div class="KDE7kZPL_kjXdvl00Oro"><span><i data-icon-name="ContactHeart" role="img" aria-label="Maternity and paternity leave" class="ms-Icon root-32 css-572 css-330" style="font-family: FabricMDL2Icons-17;"></i>Maternity and paternity leave</span></div><div class="KDE7kZPL_kjXdvl00Oro"><span><i data-icon-name="DateTime2" role="img" aria-label="Generous time away" class="ms-Icon root-32 css-574 css-330" style="font-family: FabricMDL2Icons-3;"></i>Generous time away</span></div><div class="KDE7kZPL_kjXdvl00Oro"><span><i data-icon-name="Heart" role="img" aria-label="Giving programs" class="ms-Icon root-32 css-393 css-330" style="font-family: FabricMDL2Icons;"></i>Giving programs</span></div><div class="KDE7kZPL_kjXdvl00Oro"><span><i data-icon-name="ConnectContacts" role="img" aria-label="Opportunities to network and connect" class="ms-Icon root-32 css-576 css-330" style="font-family: FabricMDL2Icons-8;"></i>Opportunities to network and connect</span></div></div></div>