Senior Software Engineer

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer who thrives on hands-on coding and problem solving to build the real-time data pipelines and serving systems that power large-scale ML models. You will be directly responsible for designing, coding, and optimizing ETL pipelines, GPU inference serving that ensure models get the freshest data and serve results with millisecond-level latency.

This role is ideal for someone who loves to write high-quality production code, profile and debug performance bottlenecks, and ship optimizations at scale, while collaborating closely with applied scientists and other engineers.

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Responsibilities

• Design & code real-time ETL/feature pipelines (e.g., Flink or Spark Structured Streaming) feeding online stores/caches with strict freshness.
• Define and meet SLOs with OpenTelemetry/Prometheus/Grafana for metrics, tracing, and alerting.
• Implement robust queuing/streaming with Kafka/Pulsar.
• Optimized GPU inference services on Triton Inference Server (or ONNX Runtime/TensorRT).
• Profile & optimize end-to-end: CPU/GPU utilization, memory, I/O, vectorization, caching etc.
• Ship safely with CI/CD.
• Collaborate with applied scientists on feature contracts, embedding pipelines, validation.
• Code reviews, docs, and mentoring.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
• OR equivalent experience.
• 4+ years building distributed systems in production.
• Production experience with streaming frameworks (Flink or Spark ) and messaging (Kafka).
• Hands-on with Kubernetes and containers; comfort with service ops (logs, metrics, scaling).
• Practical experience with GPU inference on Triton or ONNX
• Runtime/TensorRT (model packaging, runtime tuning, batching).
• Performance tuning (profilers/flamegraphs), concurrency, networked services.
• Familiarity with observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry).
• OR equivalent experience.

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:

• Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
• OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
• OR equivalent experience.
• Experience with real-time feature stores or embedding pipelines.
• Prior contributions to GPU batching, dynamic scheduling, or multi-model serving.
• 6+ years building distributed systems in production.
• OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
• OR equivalent experience.

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