Software Engineer II

• Collaborate with data scientists and other developers on the team to create the necessary abstractions, infrastructure, interfaces and implement features to train, test, validate for machine learning algorithms including but not limited to data cleaning, model training, hyper parameter tuning at massive, distributed scale
• Work on scaling these features for big data using distributed systems
• Drive the incorporation of these customer-inspired innovations into our software
• Take holistic ownership of your features
• Independently use appropriate artificial intelligence tools and practices across the software development lifecycle
• Work with appropriate internal stakeholders to understand customer/user requirements for a set of features
• Create a clear test strategy that ensures solution quality, executes test plans, and builds testable code
• Create extensible and maintainable product feature code for minimal defects
• Review product feature code to ensure it contains the correct test coverage and follows team standards
• Implements debugging tools, tests, logs, and telemetry to verify assumptions
• Strive for automation within production deployment aiming for zero-touch when possible
• Apply and reviews coding patterns, security risks, and compliance issues in code reviews
• Apply security best practices to achieve security hardening across product features

• Bachelor's / Master’s Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 3+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience
• Experience writing production code in building internet scale services and distributed systems
• Ability to debug, read code and work on a large and increasing codebase
• Excellent communication and presentation skills
• Engineering knowledge of machine learning systems and data pipelines, a plus
• Experience collaborating with developers (and other stakeholders) and being a team player
• 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

Engineering knowledge of machine learning systems and data pipelines