Principal Software Engineer (AI)

TL;DR

Principal Software Engineer (AI): Responsible for designing, developing, and improving the architecture and codebase of a large-scale web crawler platform system that fetches, renders, processes, and stores billions of web pages daily with an accent on scalability, efficiency, and performance. Focus on driving technical innovation, mentoring software engineers, and collaborating with cross-functional teams across Bing and Microsoft.

Location: Must be based in Suzhou, China

Company

hirify.global (MAI) builds comprehensive and engaging content, services, and platforms for consumers to access information on any device and for enterprises to enhance employee and customer experiences.

What you will do

• Design the architecture of the Crawler system, ensuring scalability, efficiency, performance, and quality.
• Implement features in a distributed and scalable environment using data to guide and measure success.
• Develop and execute unit, integration, and performance tests to ensure the system is reliable, robust, and meets quality standards.
• Debug and mitigate incidents in live production environments.
• Stay up to date with the latest industry trends and technologies and proactively suggest improvements to the existing system.
• Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, including product managers and other engineers, to align development goals with business objectives.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience.
• 7+ years of professional software development experience.
• Proficiency in at least one high-level programming language including but not limited to: C++, C#, Java, Golang or Rust.
• Good communication, collaboration and problem-solving skills.
• Fluent English speaking and writing.
• Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role.

Nice to have

• Experience of large-scale distributed system.
• Familiarity with online service high performance tuning.
• Familiarity with large-scale data processing and storage.
• Nice to have crawling system experience.
• Nice to have search engine platform development experience.
• Nice to have machine learning project experience.

Culture & Benefits

• Committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees.
• Expected to work from the office at least four days per week, subject to local law.