Principal Software Engineer

MSN Weather, as part of Microsoft AI, has been leading weather forecast industry with #1 accuracy for two consecutive years according to 3rd party ForecastWatch annual report. We provide full variable spectrum forecasts (temperature, precipitation, humid, pressure, wind, air quality and more) to 100 Million daily active users, through our first party products and 3rd party partnerships. 

We are looking for a highly skilled Principal Software Engineer (backend) to join our Platform team, who will provide technical leadership to key projects, collaborate with scientist teams and frontend teams to maintain and deliver key Weather forecast features. The ideal candidate will be an experienced backend engineer with knowledge of modern cloud-based architecture and services, including containers, caching, load-balancing, IO bandwidth optimization and non-sql databases. Machine learning knowledge is not required in depth, but a general understanding would help in the deployment of the SOTA deep learning models from the scientist teams. Performance tuning experience for serving deep learning models is a huge plus for this role.  

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