Senior Software Engineer
- Location
- Redmond, WA · On-site
- Job type
- Full-time
- Level
- Senior
- Experience
- 4+ years
- Education
- Bachelor's degree
- Listed
- 28 days ago
Skills & highlights for this role
- distributed systems
- C++
- Java
- Python
Also useful
- GPU programming
- approximate nearest neighbor search
- machine learning systems
About the role
Design and implement features in a distributed environment using data to guide and measure success. Participate in regular team scrums and communicate regularly and clearly with team members and leads. Share accountability of a wide array of assets and be comfortable with learning a broad array of technologies. Design and implement features in a distributed environment using data to guide and measure success.
Debug and mitigate incidents in live production environments. Participate in regular team scrums and communicate regularly and clearly with team members and leads.
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 Master'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 Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience.
10+ years of experience in building high-performance computing systems, parallel or distributed systems (e.g., in open-source projects or production systems).
Experience on high performance computing (e.g., cache/memory optimization, high-performance GPU programming, compiler-based optimization, fine-grained parallel library and runtime) or distributed systems (e.g., communication optimization, network architecture design, network programming). Theory and practice on the approximate nearest neighborhood search. Experience on building Machine Learning/Deep Learning systems.
Experience on performance analysis and optimization for both CPUs and GPUs, as well as good understanding on software-hardware codesign.
From Microsoft's careers page, first listed on Rolev.ai on October 11, 2026. Rolev.ai is not the employer.
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