Are you passionate about working on one of the largest data and storage systems in Microsoft that pushes the boundaries of scalability, reliability, and efficiency? Are you excited about being the foundation of success and impact for Microsoft’s online product offerings such as Bing, MSN, Edge, Windows News and Ads? Are you eager to gain deep knowledge of a complex, inter-connected system that handles all the business logic of HTML crawling, VDOM rendering, data ingestion and experimentation, click streaming, URL clustering, ML/DL model orchestration, of how we build one of the largest web index and data that aims to cover all the Internet? Do you want to take the platform to the next level and participate in defining its future roadmap? If so, join our Web Data Platform in Microsoft’s Web Experiences Org! 

The team is obsessed and solves problems such as:

• How to maintain and improve the reliability and availability of hundred-PB-level distributed data processing and storage systems.
• How to handle various crawling, redirect, URL normalization, script rendering behaviors of each site, and create a true accurate view of the Internet.
• How to build an application layer that enables both batch and streaming processing, integrates with latest deep-learning technologies.
• How to build a distributed system to dynamically render billions of documents per day and minimize the CPU cores required.
• How to provide billions of dynamically fetched resources needed by the rendering engine and efficiently extract visualized features from web pages.

Responsibilities

Specifically in this Senior Engineer role, you will be one of the core developers on the Dynamic Rendering Platform. You will enjoy yourself here if you want to  

• Understand a complex distributed system with distributed cache, rendering in VM sandbox, task load balancing and queue management.
• Drive design, ship and test improvements and re-architecture in the above system.
• Proficient in perf profiling, problem solving and debugging a distributed system.
• Demonstrate accountability, engineering quality and pride in ownership.
• Challenge the status quo and bring new ideas.

Qualifications

Minimum qualifications:

• 5+ years software development experience in C++, C#, or Java 
• BS degree in Computer Science or equivalent

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience with large scale distributed systems
• Solid understanding of browser engines, VM, containers, perf profiling

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 Accommodation request form.

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