Job Description

We are building a brand-new Service, with an ambition to scale to all products in WebXT (Bing, Maps, Edge, Windows Feeds etc.) providing necessary infrastructure to schedule & distribute many scenarios for validation. This system will leverage the power of crowdsourcing to auto generate a user perceived quality score representative of the health of the products, to enable teams to be in control of their feature quality and take pride in their product.

The service is expected to run 10s of thousands of scenarios every day for both webpages and apps starting with deployment of right version of operating system/hosting app with appropriate settings and connecting with relevant judges across multiple crowdsourced platforms. In addition, the service will include capabilities to capture the validation process for future debuggability, built in intelligence to target high fidelity judges, ability to dynamically update the pricing for these tasks and support real time routing across platforms to optimize for cost. Responsive dashboard, with real time data ingestion is other fundamental capability, to ease consumption of data by everyone in the organization.

About WebXT:

WebXT organization in Microsoft has the mission of "Make the web work for you". This team is comprised of several thousand software engineers working on Bing search, Edge browser, Maps, Ads, News, and other projects. Over the years we have developed deep technical expertise in various areas - Machine learning, NLP, speech, computer vision, large scale deployments and continue to innovate and delight customers across 236 regions, 106 languages and with half a billion users. Please watch on our team which will give you an insight on why you should join us.

The WebXT Team, is part of Microsoft's India Development Centre(IDC) in Hyderabad, Bengaluru and Noida (and home offices at cities across the country for the time being). The team is responsible for driving the overall strategy in search and AI Platforms - spanning consumer and enterprise customers. The team's constant endeavor is to nurture an innovative, inclusive culture to enable one to build finely crafted Search & AI products and grow to be a leader. It is home to one of the largest groups of machine learning and AI talent, not just in IDC, but all of India. Please visit our Instagram page ( ) to get a peek into our culture.

We are looking for someone who is passionate about managing group of Software engineers, and make this a core service for WebXT.

A suitable candidate is expected to have experience of managing and leading people towards goals. Understanding crowdsourced platforms will be a plus. The role requires quick prototyping, narrowing down design options to deliver on the vision in collaboration with a strong team of software engineers and partners.

• A bachelor's degree or higher in computer science or related discipline
• 12+ years of software engineering industry experience
• 4+ years of leading a product towards completion
• Experience with architecting and building reliable, distributed services
• Demonstrated problem solving and prioritization skills
• Good communication and collaboration skills

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