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Service Engineer

2025-12-06

India, Karnataka, Bangalore

3 days / week in-office

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Principal Software Engineer

2025-12-05

India, Karnataka, Bangalore

3 days / week in-office

Overview <div>Overview AI Knowledge (AI Search) is dedicated to building large-scale, developer-focused cloud search services that seamlessly integrate search, AI, and distributed systems. At the heart of this sophisticated distributed system lies the core engine, which the AI Search team continually innovates to ensure it remains a reliable and scalable retrieval partner in the evolving AI landscape. </div><div>Role & Impact As a Principal Software Engineer in the AI Knowledge Search Backend team, you will play a pivotal role in driving Core Engine initiatives as a strong individual contributor leader. You will provide strategic innovation and thought leadership to both the core engine and serverless teams, leveraging deep expertise in open-source search technologies such as OpenSearch, Lucene, Elasticsearch, and Solr. Your proven history of contributions across search and database systems, and your track record of developing highly scalable and reliable distributed systems, will be central to the growth of the service and the enablement of advanced AI applications. </div><div>IC Leadership & Collaboration </div><div><ul style="list-style-type: disc;" role="list"><li role="listitem" data-aria-level="1" data-aria-posinset="1" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"multilevel"}" data-listid="10" data-font="Symbol" data-leveltext="" aria-setsize="-1">Serve as a technical role model, driving complex initiatives and solutions with independence and strategic vision. </li></ul></div><div><ul style="list-style-type: disc;" role="list"><li role="listitem" data-aria-level="1" data-aria-posinset="2" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"multilevel"}" data-listid="10" data-font="Symbol" data-leveltext="" aria-setsize="-1">Build technical consensus among highly skilled engineers, fostering a culture of open dialogue, rigorous debate, and evidence-based decision-making. </li></ul></div><div><ul style="list-style-type: disc;" role="list"><li role="listitem" data-aria-level="1" data-aria-posinset="3" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"multilevel"}" data-listid="10" data-font="Symbol" data-leveltext="" aria-setsize="-1">Collaborate cross-functionally with product, research, and engineering teams, as well as external stakeholders, to align technical direction and deliver impactful solutions. </li></ul></div><div><ul style="list-style-type: disc;" role="list"><li role="listitem" data-aria-level="1" data-aria-posinset="4" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"multilevel"}" data-listid="10" data-font="Symbol" data-leveltext="" aria-setsize="-1">Influence the roadmap and planning across multiple teams and versions, ensuring that foundational search capabilities support both current and future AI workloads. </li></ul></div><div><ul style="list-style-type: disc;" role="list"><li role="listitem" data-aria-level="1" data-aria-posinset="5" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"multilevel"}" data-listid="10" data-font="Symbol" data-leveltext="" aria-setsize="-1">Mentor and inspire peers, championing best practices in distributed systems, cloud architecture, and search technologies. </li></ul></div> Responsibilities <div>Responsibilities </div><div><ul style="list-style-type: disc;" role="list"><li role="listitem" data-aria-level="1" data-aria-posinset="1" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"multilevel"}" data-listid="22" data-font="Symbol" data-leveltext="" aria-setsize="-1">Lead the design and delivery of ultra-scalable, AI-powered search engines, driving continuous improvements in throughput, latency, and fault tolerance. </li></ul></div><div><ul style="list-style-type: disc;" role="list"><li role="listitem" data-aria-level="1" data-aria-posinset="2" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"multilevel"}" data-listid="22" data-font="Symbol" data-leveltext="" aria-setsize="-1">Architect dynamic sharding and partitioning strategies for seamless workload distribution across billions of queries. </li></ul></div><div><ul style="list-style-type: disc;" role="list"><li role="listitem" data-aria-level="1" data-aria-posinset="3" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"multilevel"}" data-listid="22" data-font="Symbol" data-leveltext="" aria-setsize="-1">Enable generative AI and Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) scenarios by building solutions that empower intelligent applications to efficiently access and process information. </li></ul></div><div><ul style="list-style-type: disc;" role="list"><li role="listitem" data-aria-level="1" data-aria-posinset="4" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"multilevel"}" data-listid="22" data-font="Symbol" data-leveltext="" aria-setsize="-1">Champion serverless infrastructure and elasticity, ensuring adaptive performance and cost efficiency. </li></ul></div><div><ul style="list-style-type: disc;" role="list"><li role="listitem" data-aria-level="1" data-aria-posinset="5" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"multilevel"}" data-listid="22" data-font="Symbol" data-leveltext="" aria-setsize="-1">Engage with customers and stakeholders to understand scenarios, resolve issues, and ensure the product evolves with real-world needs. </li></ul></div> Qualifications <div><div>Qualifications </div><div><ul style="list-style-type: disc;" role="list"><li role="listitem" data-aria-level="1" data-aria-posinset="1" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"multilevel"}" data-listid="19" data-font="Symbol" data-leveltext="" aria-setsize="-1">15+ years of engineering experience with a strong track record in distributed systems, cloud platforms, and open-source search/database technologies. </li></ul></div><div><ul style="list-style-type: disc;" role="list"><li role="listitem" data-aria-level="1" data-aria-posinset="2" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"multilevel"}" data-listid="19" data-font="Symbol" data-leveltext="" aria-setsize="-1">Demonstrated expertise in Lucene, OpenSearch, Elasticsearch, or Solr. </li></ul></div><div><ul style="list-style-type: disc;" role="list"><li role="listitem" data-aria-level="1" data-aria-posinset="3" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"multilevel"}" data-listid="19" data-font="Symbol" data-leveltext="" aria-setsize="-1">Proven ability to build consensus and drive technical direction in cross-team environments. </li></ul></div><div><ul style="list-style-type: disc;" role="list"><li role="listitem" data-aria-level="1" data-aria-posinset="4" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"multilevel"}" data-listid="19" data-font="Symbol" data-leveltext="" aria-setsize="-1">Strong problem-solving, troubleshooting, and communication skills. </li></ul></div></div><div><div><ul style="list-style-type: disc;" role="list"><li role="listitem" data-aria-level="1" data-aria-posinset="5" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"multilevel"}" data-listid="19" data-font="Symbol" data-leveltext="" aria-setsize="-1">Experience building and shipping production-grade cloud services, including telemetry and monitoring solutions. </li></ul></div><div><ul style="list-style-type: disc;" role="list"><li role="listitem" data-aria-level="1" data-aria-posinset="6" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"multilevel"}" data-listid="19" data-font="Symbol" data-leveltext="" aria-setsize="-1">Bachelor’s degree in computer science or engineering, or equivalent experience. </li></ul></div><div>Team & Culture The AI Search team values diversity, customer obsession, and collaborative excellence. You’ll join a group committed to building foundational technology for intelligent applications, supporting each other, and celebrating team successes. 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. </div></div> This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled. <hr> Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about <a href="https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/accessibility.html">requesting accommodations.</a>

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Software Engineer II - C++

2025-12-05

India, Telangana, Hyderabad

Fully on-site

Overview <div dir="ltr">Are you passionate about revolutionizing experiences through cutting-edge innovations? Does the challenge of building highly performant, distributed, scalable, intelligent, and compliant cloud-based agentic solutions excite you? If so, the Planner team wants you to help shape the future of work and productivity. At Planner, we are not just building a product, we’re shaping the future of collaboration for millions of users worldwide. We invite you to bring your expertise, passion, and innovation to our team and help us achieve this ambitious vision. Let's build the next generation of AI-powered productivity experiences together! As a Software Engineer 2, you will work in a fast-paced, collaborative environment to solve complex problems in the work management space. You will have an opportunity to work on some hugely successful products and hone your technical skills. 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.</div> Responsibilities <div dir="ltr"><ul><li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Works with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a set of features. </li><li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Contributes to the identification of dependencies, and the development of design documents for a product area with little oversight. </li><li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Creates and implements code for a product, service, or feature, reusing code as applicable. </li><li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Contributes to efforts to break down larger work items into smaller work items and provides estimation. </li><li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Acts as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) working on-call to monitor system/product feature/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions and gains approval to restore system/product/service for simple problems. </li><li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Remains current in skills by investing time and effort into staying abreast of current developments that will improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while also driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale. </li></ul></div> Qualifications Required/Minimum Qualifications (RQs/MQs) <ul><li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 5+ years technical engineering experience with coding in C/C++ <ul><li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">OR equivalent experience. </li></ul></li><li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Strong debugging skills for native code and managed code interoperability </li><li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Strong code optimization skills </li><li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Demonstrate a growth mindset and a passion for learning new technologies. </li><li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Excellent communication, collaboration, planning and problem-solving skills. </li></ul> Additional or Preferred Qualifications (PQs) <ul><li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science <ul><li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">OR related technical field AND 5+ years technical engineering experience with coding in C/C++ </li><li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">OR Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in C/C++ </li><li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">OR equivalent experience. </li></ul></li></ul>Other Requirements: 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:<ul><li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.</li></ul> This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled. <hr> Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about <a href="https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/accessibility.html">requesting accommodations.</a>

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