Senior Software Engineer
About The Position
The Ads Data Platform Team, part of Microsoft AI (Artificial Intelligence), is hiring a Senior Software Engineer-Big Data Systems. This role is available in Redmond, WA. Our team powers the backbone of Microsoft’s global ads marketplace— gathering, storing, and enriching over half a trillion ad-serving events every day. We build data platforms that fuel business analytics, machine learning models, and real-time reporting at massive scale. If you’re passionate about solving complex problems and driving innovation, this is the place for you. As part of our team, you’ll: Design and operate high-scale, high-performance systems that process billions of events through near-real-time and offline pipelines. Build data applications that directly impact Microsoft Ads’ double-digit annual growth. Work on cutting-edge technologies in distributed systems, machine learning, and big data. Online advertising is one of the fastest-growing businesses on the Internet, with $70B of a $600B market already online —and we’re just getting started. You’ll tackle technical challenges that demand computational intelligence, scalable algorithms, and interdisciplinary expertise across data mining, optimization, and economics. Be part of a results-driven, inclusive culture where your ideas matter and your work create measurable business impact. At Microsoft, our mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. We live with our values of respect, integrity, and accountability, fostering a culture where everyone can thrive and grow.
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.
Nice To Haves
- 4+ years’ experience in Distributed Systems and Big Data Technologies such as Spark, Hadoop, HDFS, Kafka, Flink, Scala.
- Experience in: Azure Machine learning and online system design, implementation and qualification.
Responsibilities
- Work with BingAds stakeholders to determine requirements for new features to drive up Ads business.
- Create system design for feature requirements.
- Assure system meets security and compliance requirements and expectations.
- Creates a clear and articulated plan for testing and assuring quality solutions.
- Implement the features with high efficiency, extensibility, diagnosability, reliability, and maintainability with few defects.
- Reviews code of product to assure it meets the team's and Microsoft’s quality standards, is reliable and accurate, and is appropriate for the scale of the product feature.
- Maintain operations of live service as issues arise on a rotational, on-call basis.
- Identifies solutions and mitigations to simple and complex issues and escalates as necessary.
- Acts as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) working on call to monitor system/product feature/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions.
- Responds within Service Level Agreement (SLA) timeframe.
- Escalate issues to appropriate owners.
- Build knowledge, share new ideas, and share pinpoints of engineering tool gaps to improve software developer tools to support other programs, tools, and applications to create, debug, and maintain code for product features.
- Contribute to the development of automation within production and deployment of a product feature.
- Profile and analyze distributed system performance and capacity bottlenecks.
- Propose and implement solutions to improve system latency and capacity to meet BingAds online serving requirements.
Benefits
- Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
