Software Engineer 2 - Data

Overview

Microsoft’s vision is to democratize AI to enable every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. In Taiwan, the Microsoft AI R&D Center is working on various projects to foster the application of AI in local industries and address the challenges our customers face. In particular, the Azure Multimodal Intelligence (MMI) team is driving the development of various cognitive services, including optical character recognition (OCR), document understanding, and related fields in document intelligence.

We strive to build the outstanding hosted cloud and on-prem solutions leveraging deep learning to empower businesses to automate document processing intelligently using AI. Come join a creative and dedicated team of engineers. We are looking for talent people wanting to have first-hand experience in building compliant, secure, reliable, highly-available and high-performance AI products serving millions of requests worldwide.

Responsibilities

As part of the team, you will:

• Design, develop, and deliver high-quality software to enhance the availability, reliability, scalability, latency, security, resiliency, and efficiency of our services.
• Collaborate across teams to share good practices, improve engineering standards, evaluate emerging technologies, and drive adoption of modern data engineering capabilities.
• Demonstrate the ability to learn rapidly, be self-directed, and collaborate effectively with team members.
• Foster a culture of being agile, innovative, team-oriented, customer-focused and data-driven.

Qualifications

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 2+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience
• 2+ years of a proven track record for building and shipping production service
• Experience designing, developing, or supporting data pipelines, ETL/ELT processes, data models, or analytical solutions
• Demonstrated ability and effectiveness working in a significant technical problem domain, in the term of plan, design, execution, continuous release and service operation
• The ability to multi-task while balancing short-term and long-term tasks
• Agility in fast paced environment

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience on one or more of the following domains:
  • Microsoft SQL Server and Azure SQL Databases or similar database platforms
  • ETL/ELT environments with Azure Data Factory, SSIS or similar technologies
  • Azure Core Platform with machine learning, storage, networking, access, certificate, and compliance management
• Proven testing/validation, analytics/telemetry and problem-solving skills
• Experience in a DevOps culture, particularly for supporting live site
• Deep passion for customer-centric approaches, design thinking, data analysis, and emerging technologies

This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.