Job Description

Do you want to work on a product which touches and transforms the lives of billions of people across the globe? Are you someone who is passionate about bringing customer obsession and engineering craftsmanship into the product you build? Are you looking to work on large scale websites building a compelling user experience and the frameworks behind the experiences?

The People Also Ask team is hiring a Senior Software engineer who can help us build the next generation large scale backend infrastructure.

As a software engineer on this team, you will be responsible for designing, coding, and owning software and services to enable high performant, delightful web sites and applications. You will be engineering these solutions while enabling solid engineering practices including CICD, automation tooling and telemetry insights across our web sites. You will be working in a collaborative and fun environment with peers across disciplines including PMs, designers, developers and scientists.

About WWE:

WWE organization in Microsoft has the mission of \xe2\x80\x9cMake the web work for you\xe2\x80\x9d. This team is comprised of several thousand software engineers working on Bing search, Edge browser, Maps, Ads, News, and other projects. Over the years we have developed deep technical expertise in various areas \xe2\x80\x93 Machine learning, NLP, speech, computer vision, large scale deployments and continue to innovate and delight customers across 236 regions, 106 languages and with half a billion users. Please watch on our team which will give you an insight on why you should join us.

The WWE Team, is part of Microsoft\xe2\x80\x99s India Development Centre(IDC) in Hyderabad, Bengaluru and Noida (and home offices at cities across the country for the time being). The team is responsible for driving the overall strategy in search and AI Platforms \xe2\x80\x93 spanning consumer and enterprise customers. The team\xe2\x80\x99s constant endeavor is to nurture an innovative, inclusive culture to enable one to build finely crafted Search & AI products and grow to be a leader. It is home to one of the largest groups of machine learning and AI talent, not just in IDC, but all of India. Please visit our Instagram page ( ) to get a peek into our culture.

Responsibilities:

Our ideal candidate will:

• Lead a team of engineers to build and ship large scale projects
• Architect, design and develop secure, scalable, and resilient solutions
• Have the ability to think end-to-end from the UX to backend to provide the most optimal solutions
• Work closely with the design and PM teams, able to collaborate across disciplines
• Mentor other developers on the team. Participate and drive code and design reviews
• Help the team in making decisions on adopting the appropriate technical stack

Qualifications:

Required Qualifications:

• BS/MS in Computers, Electronics or related field
• 8+ years of overall software development experience in C#/Java and SQL
• Experience working on large scale data storage, processing and management
• Experience working extensively on backend and infrastructure projects

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with Azure, CosmosDB, and associated tools and methodologies
• Experience leading mid-size engineering teams

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. 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 .

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