Principal Software Engineer

Join our innovative Web Data Platform Team as a Principal Software Engineer and help us revolutionize the future of web document processing and rendering! At Web Data Document Processing & Rendering team, you'll play a key role in building cutting-edge batch and streaming systems as part of our platform that powers Bing Search and Microsoft AI training scenarios, empowers data scientists to seamlessly integrate their machine learning models, driving transformative insights at massive scale. Here you will be working with eye-popping scales, processing tens of billions of documents per day and managing hundreds of petabytes of data. The opportunity to make an impact on millions of users with each feature you ship is truly motivating.

In today's AI-driven world, where data is more valuable than ever, we're embarking on an exciting mission to elevate our platform, scaling it even further to unlock new possibilities and serve a growing array of use cases and customers. If you're passionate about building high-performance systems that shape the future of data processing, this is the place for you!

This role involves designing and developing large-scale distributed software services and solutions, collaborating with stakeholders to determine user requirements, performing system design, developing best-in-class engineering practices, improving test coverage, and troubleshooting and optimizing automation, reliability, and monitoring for Live Site.

Required 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.
• Experience with large-scale distributed data platform, Apache Spark, Kafka, Columnar storage, data modeling and/or schema designs

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in large scale system architecture, design, development, testing, and release
• Demonstrated programming skills and knowledge of architectural patterns for large, high-scale applications
• Proficient analytical skills with systematic and structured approaches to software design
• Passion for building reliable and well-tested code
• Committed collaboration and communication around articulating technical details

The role offers industry-leading healthcare, educational resources, discounts on products and services, savings and investments opportunities, maternity and paternity leave, generous time away, giving programs, and opportunities to network and connect.