New 
Software Engineer
 Microsoft | |
 United States, Washington, Redmond | |
 Jan 11, 2025 | |
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OverviewThe 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.
ResponsibilitiesShip high-quality, well-tested, secure, and maintainable codeWork 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. | |