Description
Summary
Microsoft AI are looking for a highly motivated and experienced platform engineer to join the Web Data Platform Engineering Team, responsible for some of Bing’s most critical data processing systems and pipelines.
About the Role
We are looking for a highly motivated and experienced platform engineer to join the Web Data Platform Engineering Team, responsible for some of Bing’s most critical data processing systems and pipelines. These systems and pipelines form the backbone of Bing’s web understanding stack, powering content extraction, enrichment, and understanding at massive Internet scale. In this role, you will design, build, and evolve large-scale distributed systems that process billions of documents per day with low latency and high reliability. You will work with both in-house frameworks and open-source technologies to build next-generation data processing platforms that enable downstream services—such as indexing, ranking, and AI-driven experiences—to deeply understand the web.
Accountabilities
- Design and architect large-scale distributed pipelines to ensure scalability, robustness, performance, and cost efficiency.
- Implement new features and system improvements in highly distributed, parallelized environments, using data to measure and validate impact.
The Candidate we're looking for
Experience:
- 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.
Technical skills:
- Solid foundation in distributed systems, concurrency, networking, and system design.
- Excellent communication, collaboration, and problem-solving skills.
Personal attributes:
- Fluency in English (spoken and written).
Benefits
- Starting January 26, 2026, Microsoft AI employees who live within a 50-mile commute of a designated Microsoft office in the U.S. or 25-mile commute of a non-U.S., country-specific location are expected to work from the office at least four days per week.
- Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role.
- These requirements include but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings: Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.