The MAI recommendation platform team works on a unified system providing personalized content feeds for billions of users over hundreds of billions of documents. Now we are powering the feeds on MSN, Edge browser, Windows, and different scenarios including news, shopping, weather, finance, etc. We run the service across multiple geographically distributed data centers, balancing latency, efficiency, stability, agility and debuggability. We build the system end to end, including data collection with all the available data sources, model training infrastructure, collaborative filtering, document indexing, user signals handling with NRT pipeline, online recall and hosting various ranking models from our relevance partners. We are looking for a **Software Engineer** to join us. The team culture values engineering quality, technical excellence, and grass roots innovation. We foster a supportive and productive work environment to provide growth avenues for each team member. In the team, you will leverage open-source technology, such as Kafka and Spark, to collect and aggregate user signals; you will dive into the system design and C++/C# implementation details to get highly efficient online serving component; you will also talk to data scientist and algorithm engineer to build state of art machine/deep learning system. Your work will impact billions of users in the world. Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond. **Responsibilities** + Ship high-quality, well-tested, secure, and maintainable code + Work collaboratively and communicate effectively with engineering, data scientists and product teams. + Design and develop large-scale distributed software services and solutions in collaboration with teammates. + Design services with a keen focus on high availability and scalability, robustness, and observability. + Take end-to-end responsibility for the development, observability, quality, testing, and production readiness of the services you build. **Qualifications** **Required Qualifications:** + Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 2+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python + OR equivalent experience. + 2+ years of professional experience designing and building software. + Experience with theoretical fundamentals including, but not limited to data structures, algorithms, time complexity and space complexity, lock-free data structures, multi-threaded architecture etc. **Additional or Preferred Qualifications:** + 5+ years of professional experience designing and building software. + Experience with large scale distributed system. + Experience on recommendation area. Software Engineering IC3 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $98,300 - $193,200 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 $127,200 - $208,800 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 January 15, 2025. \#C++ #Fundamentals #Recommendation #DistributedSystem #Bing Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations (https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/accessibility.html) .