Principle Software Engineering Manager

Company: Microsoft Corporation
Location: Bellevue
Posted on: February 20, 2021

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• Job number 961436
• Date posted Jan 15, 2021
• Travel 0-25 %
• Role type People Manager
• Employment type Full-Time Are you an experienced backend engineer with a passion for leading teams while remaining "hands-on"? Does the opportunity to work on large scale distributed systems sound exciting? If so, this Principal Software Engineer role with team MagneTar may be the right fit! Bing Platform is focused on providing a search platform for Microsoft internal partners using the Bing web search backend system. As a team, we manage one of the world's largest distributed systems and have experienced great success in building efficient large scale distributed systems for search. With the advancement in hardware, machines are becoming more powerful, so determining how to fully utilize machine resources is becoming a bigger challenge. The agility of engineering and deployment is also presents as a big challenge when handling such a complex system. As Bing becomes more intelligent, the need for a platform to build up AI intelligence is becoming bigger.-- Within the Bing Platform, we are the new MagneTar team and we have the exciting responsibility of trying to tackle these challenges. As a team, we are trying to fully utilize our backend system's resources by harvesting the spare resource in our backend system and build an OSS big data processing layer to fulfill Bing's offline compute requirements. Our team operates a Hadoop cluster with tens of thousands of Windows nodes, on top of which we run a full-spectrum Hadoop open-source software stack, including HDFS, Yarn, Spark, Flink, ZooKeeper, Kafka, and TensorFlow, etc. Our Hadoop cluster hosts a full suite of critical large-scale machine-learning/deep-learning computational tasks across Bing, from DL model training/serving, ANN building/serving and offline big data processing by DL models, to support fusing of AI into our search and other areas. We are looking for experienced hands-on manager who will help lead the team to improve the usability, perf and scale of the system. The team culture values heavy collaboration, engineering quality, technical excellence, and grass roots innovation. We foster a supportive and productive work environment to--provide growth avenues for each team member.-- Responsibilities As a manager on our team, you will be responsible for:
  • Scaling the team by developing ICs and attracting world-class talent
  • Providing hands-on technical guidance and leadership for a team of 6+ engineers
  • Engaging with partner teams to drive and shape a platform roadmap that will allow us to scale as an organization and service the meets the needs of the broader engineering teams in WebXT
  • Providing vision for further platformization and how we evolve to bring features into our offline compute platform Qualifications The following are required qualifications for this role:
    • 8+ years of industry software development and debugging experience in any of the following languages: C, C++, C#, Java, Python
    • Backend systems development and/or open source Hadoop, Spark, Kafka, etc Preferred Qualifications:
      • Contributed to Hadoop OSS code--
      • Bachelors or advanced degree in computer science or related field 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 . Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work. Save save Principle Software Engineering Manager to job cart This site is hosted for Microsoft by Phenom People

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