Within AI Platform, the Azure AI Search team powers rich search experiences for apps of all kinds. Integrates the best of Microsoft AI for content understanding, search relevance and more. Azure AI Search is rapidly growing and adapting our product to power many of the leading generative AI applications in the ecosystem, including OpenAI's ChatGPTThis is a unique position to have breadth of owning the engineering systems for all of Azure AI Search and at the same time showcase the solution via customer facing APIs.

We are looking to hire a Principal Software Engineer- AI Search to join our team. This is a rare opportunity to lead development for an Azure service at the very center of AI innovation wave, operating at the intersection of AI, Information Retrieval and Cloud Services. Join us in this special point in time to help drive the next round of accelerated growth for our business through innovating our core cloud service platforms. Azure AI Search engineers to release features securely and reliably through multiple complex environments by establishing frameworks, patterns and infrastructure to allow teams to self-service their release, compliance, and foundational needs. 

The Azure AI Search Engineering Foundations team owns the overall secure development lifecycle for Azure AI Search including all internal developer tools, CI/CD process, operational tooling, overall service architecture, security fundamentals, service foundations and release management. We enable fellow Azure AI Search engineers to release features securely and reliably through multiple complex environments by establishing frameworks, patterns and infrastructure to allow teams to self-service their release, compliance, and foundational needs.

As a good sounding board to our own engineering systems, as consumers, the team showcases the solution via the frontend components. The frontend components are the APIs our customers use to provision services and interact with their services to store and search their data. We provide the foundation to safely and efficiently host web APIs in Azure for management and data planes.  

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.

In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day.

Responsibilities

  • Play a central role in defining vision and driving implementation of complex, scalable, and reliable platform solutions  
  • Technical leader who defines and implements large complex features 
  • Empower and inspire others to be successful  
  • Embody growth mindset and foster inclusive team culture 
  • Collaborate closely with other development teams in Azure AI Search team 
  • Embody our culture and values

Qualifications

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++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
    • OR equivalent experience.
  • 2+ years experience of leading organization through architecture and technical design of aspects of a product that include customer facing and infrastructure as a platform. 
  • Experience successfully leading engineering teams that successfully deliver code into large engineering projects

Software Engineering IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $137,600 - $267,000 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 $180,400 - $294,000 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


Microsoft will accept applications for the role until September 26, 2024.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances.  We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.

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

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Salary

$137,600 - $294,000

Yearly based

Location

Redmond, Washington, United States

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3 months ago
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