Senior Software Engineer

What you'll do

• Design, develop, and operate high-scale services that power Microsoft Monetize and Microsoft Curate order management platform
• Independently use artificial intelligence tools and practices across the software development lifecycle
• Dive deep into real-time technologies and distributed systems
• Collaborate with internal and external partners to design features that drive monetization
• Develop features that delight publishers and curators while upholding the highest standards of availability, reliability, performance, and scalability
• Influence and define new designs, architectures, standards, and agents that empower teams across Microsoft Advertising to build at scale
• Work closely with cross-functional teams across Microsoft Advertising to share best practices, align on strategy, and leverage shared infrastructure and research
• Proactively seek new knowledge and adapt to new trends, technical solutions, and patterns that improve availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale
• Embody Microsoft culture and values

Requirements

• 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
• 2+ years of experience in distributed systems, client-server architecture, and distributed database technologies such as real-time C/C++ backend services, Zookeeper, Redis, SQL DB or similar
• Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements including Microsoft Cloud Background Check
• Preferred: Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience OR Bachelor's Degree AND 8+ years experience
• Solid problem-solving skills
• Solid Computer Science fundamentals with regards to data structures, algorithms and time/space complexity analysis
• Solid communication and organization skills
• Experience building high-performance transactional distributed backend systems in C/C++/Linux environments and optimizing real-time, ultra-low-latency transactional systems
• Dedicated to increasing efficiency through automation and AI agents
• Experience with designing AB tests for scientific and ML optimizations

Tech stack