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The Senior Software Engineer joins the Semantic Fabric team to build a breakthrough technology providing a semantic index for enterprise data within M365. In this role, you will develop highly scalable ingestion pipelines and indexing solutions at an exabyte scale to ensure low-latency access to grounding data from documents, Teams messages, and emails. You will build high-performance software services, participate in architectural decisions, and manage the design, testing, and deployment of solutions that integrate with Large Language Models. Required skills include proficiency in languages such as C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python. You should also possess experience with distributed systems, cloud services, functional programming, and information retrieval systems. The work focuses on solving complex data indexing problems to improve Copilot's reasoning capabilities across diverse enterprise content.
What does a Software Engineer earn?
Median $197400 from 2576 postings across 150 companies.
Build scalable, high-performance software services over large datasets with low latency and high availability.
Develop semantic indexing and search experiences for Microsoft Office 365 data.
Design, develop, test, deploy, and maintain software solutions for the Semantic Fabric platform.
Identify and resolve technical debt and issues impacting software performance or reliability.
Implement software that adheres to strict data privacy, security, and compliance standards.
Research and apply new LLM and semantic search technologies to improve platform capabilities.
Participate in code reviews to ensure software quality and promote engineering best practices.
Identify project risks and take proactive actions to mitigate them.
What we're looking for
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field and 4+ years of technical engineering experience with coding in languages like C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python (or equivalent).
Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field and 6+ years of technical engineering experience with coding in languages like C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python (preferred).
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field and 8+ years of technical engineering experience with coding in languages like C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python (preferred).
Senior/Lead Engineer professional software development experience with at least two of C#/C++/Java, ASP.NET, and RUST (preferred).
Hands-on experience with distributed systems and services in the cloud (preferred).
Knowledge of functional programming principles, including immutability and type safety (preferred).
Proven ability to tackle complex technical issues, proper research and design, and high-quality implementations (preferred).
Great written and verbal communication skills in English (preferred).
Large Language Models
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
C++
C
Microsoft Azure
Microsoft 365
Copilot
Copilot Studio
Power Platform
GitHub Copilot
APIs
Source Control
Machine Learning
Data Integration
Workflow Automation
Responsible AI
Java
Python
Go
C++
C#
Kubernetes
Docker
RESTful APIs
CI/CD
Linux
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
Distributed Systems
GitHub Copilot
Codex
Claude Code
Infrastructure Automation
Service Observability