Senior Software Engineer

Are you interested in building the next state-of-the-art AI infrastructure to fuel Microsoft’s rapidly growing multi-billion online advertiser business? Are you passionate about using big data and machine learning to solve real world customer problems and delight hundreds of millions of Bing users? How about working in a fun and fast paced environment where engineers are empowered to innovate? If so, please come join our Microsoft Ads team. We engineer massively scalable streaming systems and services that form the backbone of Bing’s ~$10B monetization engine, covering all aspects of online advertising such as advertiser facing demand ingestion/management/insights, preparation and transformation of huge volume of advertising data to be served, and performing low latency and high throughput online serving. Tough competition in the industry has created enormous opportunities as well as technical challenges in Big Data, Distributed Systems, and Machine Learning/Deep Learning. If you would like to tackle these challenges and be part of a winning team, we are the right place for you!

Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and ship infrastructure related features related to enable ads metrics alerting, diagnostics and monitoring.
• Optimize data processing pipelines and evolve architectures to maximize performance and minimize cost.
• Enhance flight analysis infra to optimize CTS and add new business metrics.
• Deep dive into data to find key insights that drive technical design and feature roadmaps.
• Work with partner ads and Bing teams to light-up different ads scenarios, and leverage their work.
• Operational support for the product to fix bugs and mitigate/resolve livesites.

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.

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

• A team player with lot of curiosity.
• Working knowledge of any other cloud service.
• Experience in shipping production quality code.
• 2+ years of hands-on experience in online advertising systems, information retrieval systems, web search systems, big data processing pipelines, database applications, large scale internet applications, and/or distributed systems required.

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