北京招聘

Job ID 857835
Location China, Suzhou
Job Category Software Engineering: Development
Division Applications and Services Engineering

Want to work on an area where processing tens of billions of documents and serving hundreds of millions of requests are routine? Get excited when you think about harnessing the power and storage of tens of thousands of machines, working on solving problems that directly impact our search customers? Ever think of the contribution of the project can be measured as cost savings of millions of US dollars every year? Image that the impact of your work will be noticed by everyone and your name will be carved on the corner stone for Bing's success in China? If you think you have the competency and courage to work with some smart people building the best search in China - projects that you will be proud of for long time - STCA Search Platform is the place for you.

Search Platform Team
Search Engine is by far one of the most demanding distributed computation applications at the largest scale in the world. Search Platform Team’s mission is to provide the most scalable high performance, cost efficient, scalable and agile platforms for Bing - the fastest growing search engine today. Those unique and profound challenges are the motivation for many world class engineering talents and computer scientists being our teammates. Working together with top computer scientists and researchers from Microsoft Research Asia and US driving our projects together with the platform team in the US, we continue revising the definition of technical limit and engineering excellence.

Some of the major challenges that Search Platform team is solving include:
- How to push index serving efficiency to the next level, so that Bing can provide the fastest and quality search results with the lowest cost?
- How to scale Bing index size capacity in order of magnitude, so that Bing becomes the most comprehensive search engine?
- How to enhance rich ranking data model and ranking infrastructure capability, so that index serving platform is more powerful and agile to enable game changing ideas and best search quality?
- How to scale out index platform globally and flexibly, so that regional index serving platform becomes an important and capable launch pad for “Win in China” mission
- How to evolve the search platform architecture under the context of search service trend, algorithm innovation and computer hardware tendency, so that our system can sustain continuous development and long term success.
- How to effectively improve capacity efficiency of the serving stack built on large scale globally distributed data centers, deliver Contribution Margin improvements through Capacity Management/Engineering.

Roles and Responsibilities:
As a a Principal Dev Lead/Architect in the STCA Search Platform team, you will play a key technical leadership role, work with talented developers and program managers to design, develop, and ship cutting edge search indexing and serving platforms and services to enable highly search quality and cost effective services. You will have the opportunity to lead in the following areas:
- Understand and articulate the search platform needs and requirements in China and worldwide, and contribute to the product roadmap and strategy for OSD search platform development
- Drive the engineering rhythm and process of the team from planning, resource allocation, design, coding, deployment, and support of search serving operations
- Take on one or multiple technical area, provide architectural and engineering leadership, drive engineering excellence and deliver product with uncompromising quality on schedule
- Work closely with MSRA research teams to rapidly transfer innovative technology to Bing
If you’ve dreamed of shaping the future of Search with Bing in China and worldwide, this is the ideal role for you.

Qualifications:
As a Principal Dev Lead/Architect in the STCA Search Platform team, you should feel comfortable working in a fast pace environment. You should possess a strong technical background and a good grasp of software engineering principles, exceptional problem solving, design, programming, and testing skills. You should be self-motivated and self-directed and able to collaborate and mentor team members. A demonstrated ability to come up-to-speed quickly on a new technical domain is required. Excellent interpersonal communication skills, written communication skills and the ability to work well in a team environment are very important.
Additional qualifications for this position include:
- 8+ years of relevant system software design, development, and shipping experience.
- Great design and problem solving skills, with a strong bias for quality and engineering excellence at scale. Our code runs on thousands of machines on multiple continents, so bring your ‘A’ game.
- Outstanding coding chops in C/C++.
- Demonstrated experience shipping products on time and with high quality.
- Experience in OS, distributed systems and multi-threaded programming is strongly preferred
- Experiences in large scale online services engineering and operation a strong plus
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field (Masters or PhD preferred).


Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer and supports workforce diversity.
GCR:CN:DEV:EN

Contact Person: Winnie Wei (wiwe@microsoft.com )

Search Technology Center Asia invites you to join!

STCA was founded in 2005 and is now starting the second “Five-Year Plan” after integrating with Ads Platform and Bing Mobile in 2011. The new team has not only built up its strengths and expanded its scope, but also set a shared goal, broadened its vision, and is equipped with richer resources that give the team the confidence to scale new heights.
STCA is now focusing on the following areas: the continuous exploration of Bing search technology; the technical innovation of online advertisement services; the development of the MSN social platform; and the development of mobile search applications, and the next generation of Microsoft’s speech and natural language platform. Today, STCA is the largest R&D team of the Microsoft Online Services Division outside the United States with investment plans to scale well over 460 in FY12.
We have many exciting openings in STCA for DEV, Research SDE, Researcher, TEST, and PM across all feature teams of Bing, Ads, MSN Social, Mobile Search, and Speech Technology. All our openings are available from external website www.bingjobs.com or careers.microsoft.com. STCA invites you to join!

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