Senior Software Engineer-Build & Release

The Bing organization in Microsoft is several thousand software engineers working on Bing search, Edge browser, Maps, Ads, News, and other projects. As the ecosystem grew over the years, there is a fervent desire at all levels of the organization to improve and streamline engineering systems and practices to make engineers more productive and satisfied with their day-to-day work. This will include improving source control, deployment mechanism for 100s of services, standardization of build/documentation, mono repository, standard cloud workstations, standardization of machine learning experience, etc.

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join us. As a Senior Software Engineer in the platform team, you will build and maintain our distributed build & deployment system that underpins highly scaled and latency sensitive applications like Bing, Microsoft News and Advertising to name a few. You will work with engineers and product managers from across various parts of the organization to improve developer experience at scale.

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.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 4+ 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 CI/CD pipelines like Azure DevOps, GitHub Workflow, or equivalents. 

  Experience with Windows and Linux/Unix operating systems. 

  Experience designing storage systems in MS SQL, Cassandra, or Cosmos DB. 

Additional or Preferred Qualifications:

• Practical knowledge of Azure services. 

• Knowledge of build systems – MSBuild, CMake, Clang, etc.

• Demonstrated engineering rigor and desire to eliminate manual work.

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• Build highly scalable, highly available services that get deployed across the world.
• Collaborate with partner teams that deliver experiences like multimedia search, advertising, enterprise search, to deliver platform-level features across all of them.
• Design, write and implement services with performance, efficiency, re-usability, and maintainability as core focus.
• Develop systems and toolsets that work across multiple orchestrators, source control, and build systems (ADO and GitHub). 
• Mentor engineers in the team by providing hands-on assistance, best practices, and promoting an inclusive learning environment. 
• Contribute to several Open-Source projects we work with.