1 day ago
Base Salary
$166k - $331k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own the technical direction and end-to-end architectural strategy for Copilot Discover platforms.
- Partner with product, design, data science, and engineering leaders to translate business and user needs into designs, architectural plans, and multi-year roadmaps.
- Govern architecture across multiple services and teams, ensuring systems are scalable, secure, reliable, cost-efficient, privacy-respecting, and operationally effective.
- Review critical designs, establish technical principles and quality standards, and develop technical leaders across the organization.
- Establish test strategies, CI/CD practices, monitoring, alerting, reliability standards, and live-site health practices.
- Shape AI/ML adoption for content understanding, personalization, summarization, ranking, and safety.
- Align MSN architecture with Bing, Copilot, Ads, Privacy, Trust, and other Microsoft platforms.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field plus 8+ years of related experience; or a master’s degree plus 6+ years; or a doctorate plus 5+ years; or equivalent experience.
- Preferred qualifications include a master’s degree plus 12+ years of related experience, or a doctorate plus 8+ years, or equivalent experience.
- Experience designing and operating large-scale distributed systems, including data pipelines, microservices, APIs, and storage systems.
- Experience with content platforms, personalization systems, or large-scale consumer-facing services.
- Experience with Apache Spark, Kafka, columnar storage, data modeling, and schema evolution.
- Experience serving as a technical lead or architect and influencing across teams without direct authority.
- Understanding of system architecture, performance tuning, telemetry design, and operational excellence.
- Exposure to ML/AI systems, particularly content understanding, ranking, or personalization.
- Strong analytical, communication, cross-organizational collaboration, and senior-stakeholder influence skills.
Benefits
- The role may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.
- The typical U.S. base pay range is $165,600–$296,400 per year; a separate range applies to specified San Francisco Bay Area and New York City metropolitan area locations.
- Applications are accepted on an ongoing basis, and the position will be open for at least five days.
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About Microsoft
Microsoft develops operating systems, productivity software, cloud services, developer tools, and consumer devices for individuals, enterprises, and governments. Its main products include Windows, Microsoft 365, Azure, Visual Studio/GitHub, Xbox, and LinkedIn; revenue comes from software subscriptions and licenses, cloud consumption, hardware sales, and advertising. Founded in 1975 and headquartered in Redmond, Washington, Microsoft is a public company traded on Nasdaq.