Senior Software Engineer-Backend

ObjectStore  team is looking for a Senior Software Engineer-Backend to work on the core platform technologies to join us in Redmond, WA in building the next generation of storage and computation fabric using in-house and open source technologies.

Now more than ever, we live in an age where AI and cloud services are empowering people around the world to achieve more. Behind these innovative services exists a critical infrastructure that is bringing them to life. On the ObjectStore team we build the core cloud platform backing Bing and Copilot. ObjectStore has grown to be used across all of Microsoft including Copilot, Bing, Azure, Office, SharePoint, Microsoft Teams and more. Our product is impacting individual's lives in scenarios such as web search, AI chat, friends exploring, and local deal finding. Today ObjectStore has over 10 thousand storage tables world-wide, with 350+ partners across divisions of Microsoft.  
 
Over time, ObjectStore has matured from a low latency key-value store into a rich serving platform. It supports features such as auto scaling and healing, full text search, deep learning vector search and general computation hosting. We learn from and compete with many popular NoSQL, Indexing and Deep-Learning serving technologies in the industry. These are the hottest domains in the modern cloud infrastructure age that are unlocking the power for AI at scale.  

Responsibilities

Our developers design, implement, and rollout features with a data-driven and test-driven methodology. Furthermore, they have the opportunity to work with cutting-edge cloud and machine learning technologies.

We are a flat team, so you will participate in agile scrum, collaborate with people who have different domain expertise, and have opportunities to explore and contribute in a variety of areas. You will be hands-on in a massively scaled and distributed system.

Team members are expected to: 

• Share accountability for 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.
• Look for opportunities to use open source technologies in our service or to share learnings, services and tools we have created with Microsoft broadly or the open source community.  

We are a fast-paced team with product releases every week. If you are self-motivated and want to make a large impact in the cloud serving area then we are looking forward to meeting you! 

Qualifications

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# or Java
  • OR equivalent experience
• 4+ years of experience working on a distributed platform

Preferred Qualifications: 

• 6+ years of development experience with C++, C# or another Object Oriented language.Experience debugging live distributed systems.
• Experience using or developing NoSQL storage systems.
• Experience with serverless architectures and other cloud architectural patterns. 
• Able to quantitatively evaluate, implement and verify a solution in a distributed environment, using simulation, testing, counters, logging, and other methodologies.

Software Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $117,200 - $229,200 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $153,600 - $250,200 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

Microsoft will accept applications and processes offers for these roles on an ongoing basis.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for emplo