Principal Software Engineer - AI Experiences, Monetization
About The Position
The Principal Software Engineer will help modernize Microsoft Advertising’s Campaign Management platform, which enables advertisers to create, manage, analyze and optimize campaigns across Microsoft’s advertising ecosystem. The platform includes services, APIs, data pipelines and web applications. The multi-year modernization effort includes moving to cloud-native services, re-architecting core campaign workflows, adding AI-powered capabilities and improving engineering productivity. This is a hands-on, end-to-end engineering role spanning backend services, APIs, data storage and processing, and customer-facing applications. The engineer will lead high-impact feature and platform designs and implementations, owning work from data model and service design through deployment and live-site operations. They will improve the scalability, reliability, latency and cost efficiency of systems handling large volumes of advertiser data and transactions, while advancing AI-enabled engineering practices and partnering with engineering, product and design teams to deliver durable improvements for advertisers worldwide. Employees who live within a 50-mile commute of a designated Microsoft Hub in the U.S. are expected to work from the office at least four days per week, subject to local law and jurisdictional variation.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field and 6+ years of technical engineering experience coding in languages such as C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript or Python, or equivalent experience.
- Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements, including passing the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire or transfer and every two years thereafter.
Nice To Haves
- Master's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field and 8+ years of technical engineering experience coding in languages such as C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript or Python, or equivalent experience.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field and 12+ years of technical engineering experience coding in languages such as C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript or Python, or equivalent experience.
Responsibilities
- Design, build and operate scalable backend services and APIs for campaign management, reporting and optimization workflows.
- Own features end to end across data models, storage, service logic, API contracts and client applications.
- Design distributed systems for high throughput, low latency, fault tolerance and cost efficiency on cloud infrastructure.
- Build and improve data flows involving transactional data stores, caching, asynchronous processing, messaging and integrations with upstream and downstream advertising systems.
- Improve reliability, performance, security, observability and maintainability across services and applications.
- Lead technical design, architecture reviews and investigations for business-critical features, and influence technical direction within and across teams.
- Own production health, including monitoring, alerting, capacity planning, incident response and post-incident improvements.
- Partner with product, design and partner engineering teams to turn advertiser needs into end-to-end solutions.
- Advance AI-enabled engineering practices and help integrate AI capabilities into platform services and advertiser workflows.
- Mentor engineers and raise the technical bar through code reviews, design guidance and knowledge sharing.
- Identify opportunities to modernize legacy systems, reduce complexity and improve customer outcomes.
Benefits
- Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation; details are available through Microsoft's pay and benefits information page.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Principal
