Senior Software Engineer

Microsoft Advertising (MSA) empowers the world’s largest advertisers to reach their maximum potential through digital advertising solutions on the Microsoft Advertising platform. Microsoft Monetize is a platform that provides an open, transparent marketplace and powerful enterprise technology enabling marketers to connect and engage consumers on thousands of high-quality websites and apps.

The Monetize Platform is an advanced buy-side and sell-side advertising technology platform that enables buyers and sellers to access and trade premium inventory in a transparent and streamlined environment.

Microsoft is hiring an experienced Senior Software Engineer to join the Auction Logic team of the Monetize Platform.

About The Team

The mission of the Auction Logic team is to create the digital marketplace with a purpose of accurately connecting advertisers (buyers) and publishers (sellers) in the most effective and efficient way possible. The team is responsible for building and operating a set of core components of Monetize real-time platform, specifically the distributed set of servers that runs an auction for every ad impression, delivers the ad content, and performs all the necessary accounting. The Monetize real-time platform is a large-scale distributed platform operating under strict real-time constraints, responding to and executing real-time, dynamic auctions in less than 100 milliseconds. In the past few years, we’ve grown from processing 300k QPS to over 5 million QPS for an approximate total of 100 billion requests per day. These events generate more than 150 TB of new data every day. Engineers work on the real-time components to optimize our software for performance, space, and algorithmic efficiency. The application that processes all those requests, impression bus, is among the responsibilities of the Auction Logic team. You will provide solutions to help connect advertisers and publishers in the digital marketplace as well as resolve complex technical issues that arise because of the immense scale of our platform.

About The Job

As a technical leader you’ll design and implement solutions that span multiple applications on the real time platform, are high quality, require hard real time constraints, are easy to operate and maintain, and make the lives of product engineers easier. You will own or influence significant parts of the platform and allied areas. You will work closely with other engineers and our product teams, to not only make these systems go faster and handle more and more data, but also to build revolutionary new products for our clients.

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

As the Senior Software Engineer, you will

• Lead the cross-team engineering efforts to build business critical products for publishers and buyers on the Monetize platform.
• You will collaborate with a team of smart, passionate engineers.
• You will own significant areas of the Monetize real-time platforms and function as the architect.
• You will participate in setting the roadmap and direction for your areas of responsibility.

Responsibilities Include

• Design and implement scalable solutions including new features and enhancements of our Platform. Participate in and help lead planning sessions with Product Management and Engineering team leads to construct feature requirements and specifications.
• Produce prototype features quickly and participate in gathering feedback from clients.
• Bring innovation to the team in new features, improving build processes and product development lifecycle.
• Participate in code reviews and provide feedback to increase code efficiency, maintainability and robustness.
• Support and debug production level issues and provide fixes in an expedient manner.
• Mentor junior engineers on best practices in software development.

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.
• Experience building high performance, multi-threaded, distributed systems and applications, preferably in a Linux environment.
• Experience practicing advanced optimization techniques.
• Solid fundamental understanding of generalized architecture patterns and service-oriented architecture (SOA).

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience providing mentorship and guidance, including code reviews, training, and feedback.
• You are passionate about enabling customer success.

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