22 hours ago
Hyderābād, IndiaSenior
Responsibilities
- Design and implement core Windows Search Platform components.
- Drive technical deep-dives, author design specifications, and establish technical direction for complex search-platform features.
- Own feature delivery from design through coding, testing, self-host validation, and retail rollout.
- Collaborate with Product and Data teams to align technically and resolve architectural trade-offs.
- Build and maintain observability infrastructure and improve reliability, quality, and performance.
- Lead bug triage, root-cause analysis, technical-debt reduction, and proactive quality engineering.
- Mentor engineers through code reviews, design discussions, and technical guidance.
- Champion AI-assisted engineering practices, agentic workflows, automation, and AI tooling.
- Represent technical decisions and progress in engineering forums, sprint reviews, and cross-team syncs.
Requirements
- At least 8 years of technical engineering experience.
- Solid proficiency in C/C++ and systems-level or platform software development.
- Experience with multithreaded programming, memory management, and native-code performance optimization.
- Ability to own and deliver complex features end to end with minimal guidance.
- Deep understanding of Windows internals, the NT kernel, NTFS/ReFS file systems, or OS-level services and infrastructure.
- Experience with search or indexing systems, database internals, query processing, or information retrieval at scale.
- Experience authoring design specifications and driving technical consensus across stakeholders.
- Experience with telemetry frameworks, observability pipelines, and data-driven quality engineering.
- Familiarity with AI/ML integration patterns, embedding-based retrieval, LLM consumption APIs, or AI-native platform design.
- Strong debugging and root-cause analysis skills across user-mode and kernel-mode components.
- Methodical analytical, software design, testing, and performance-analysis skills.
- Confident communication skills for explaining technical decisions and trade-offs to engineers and leadership.
- Strong ownership, accountability, self-motivation, and bias toward action.
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.