Job Description

The Microsoft Search and Intelligence team is responsible for enabling intelligence Microsoft Outlook, SharePoint, Teams, Bing and Cortana Microsoft Assistant. We research and develop natural language processing, machine learning infrastructure and distributed systems to process billions of emails and documents per day extracting key inferences and knowledge, serving several powerful intelligent experiences to billions of users guiding them and their organizations make smart decisions. The org vision is to make O365 users more productive. You'd be part of a team working on modernizing the way users discover, navigate and search across their organization's Office365 knowledge corpus. We strive to break down the barriers of traditional search and instead offer the most relevant and contextual based suggestions to help users discover the content they are looking for; spanning their contacts, emails, documents and their organization's data. Viva Topics a recently release Microsoft offering Enterprise Knowledge Management is an example of exciting projects in this space.

We are looking for highly motivated, and innovative software engineers and technical leaders who are passionate about writing a high-performance code and building distributed information retrieval systems to deploy and serve machine learning, classification and language translation-based end to end solutions.

* Design and development of features, including the preparation of technical requirements and design specifications
* Investigate, prototype, and deliver new and innovative solutions
* Deliver high quality software via working in a dynamic, team-focused Agile/Scrum environment.
* Instill best practices for software development and documentation, ensure designs meet requirements, and deliver exceptional-quality work on tight schedules

Required Qualifications:

* BS or MS degree in Computer Science or Engineering OR equivalent years of work experience.
* 5+ years of software design and development experience with backend services.
* 5+ years hands on experience in any Object Oriented coding language such as C++, C, Java or Python.

Preferred Qualifications:

* Experience in writing high-performance code and designing high load distributed systems, deep knowledge of data structures and algorithms and algorithm optimizations, familiarity with map-reduce, spark.
* 5+ years designing, developing and shipping software
* Strong communication and collaboration skills;
* Enjoy learning and ramping up on new technologies and codebases quickly

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.

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