Azure AI  Search is looking for a senior engineer to join the Azure AI Search team. We’re looking for an engineer passionate about building large-scale, developer-facing cloud services and solving problems at the intersection of Search, AI, distributed systems, and information retrieval in an agile, customer-obsessed environment

Azure AI Search is a global managed search solution. As the hosted search engine on Azure, we make it quick and easy for developers to integrate a robust set of search capabilities into their applications; Think e-commerce sites, data catalogs, large enterprise applications. Over the last few years, the service has gone through tremendous growth, expanding into new market segments, and enabling new customer scenarios. Currently, we are sitting right in center of the AI wave enabling generative AI and RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) scenarios driving future growth, we’re working to support a broader range of customer workloads in terms of data and query volume, usage patterns, and hosting modes. Independently, we’re investing heavily to improve key drivers of customer satisfaction including search relevance and developer experience

This is a great opportunity for anyone looking to take the next step in their career and be at the forefront of what Microsoft cares about most: Data, Cloud and AI 

As a team we’re proud of what we build and how we build it. We run lean, obsess about customers and use an evidence-based approach to decision making. Every single week we talk to customers to make sure we build what they want. We leverage open-source technologies, develop in C#, Java and C++, our codebase builds in minutes, and we ship new bits regularly. We hire self-driven engineers ready to take on new challenges, develop ownership, and learn quickly. We reduce the process to a minimum. As an engineer on the team, you’ll spend most of your time writing code, contributing improvements in different dimensions of the service value proposition: core search, manageability, scale, availability, performance, developer experience

You can read more about our culture in this news article: https://aka.ms/azure-search-startup . You can also check out our product page https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/search and stack overflow forum https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/azure-cognitive-search to see how developers use search.  Our team consists of people from a wide variety of backgrounds, different professional and life experiences. We maintain and grow that diversity, which makes us better at building the best solutions for our customers while having a blast doing it! Core to our team culture is the belief that you must have a ‘people-first’ approach to sustainably building and running 24x7 cloud services. This means we support each other to build things the right way, only work sane hours, enjoy our vacation time and take advantage of our paid parental leave