Senior Software Engineer - Backend

Overview

Job Title: Senior Software Engineer

Online Advertising is one of the fastest growing multi-billion-dollar business on the Internet today. Search engines, web publishers, major ad networks, and ad exchanges are now serving billions of ad impressions per day. Microsoft is innovating rapidly in this space to grow its share of this market by providing the advertising industry with the state-of-the-art online advertising platform and service.

In the Microsoft Advertising Platform (MAP) team, we are building marketing solutions for the next generation of e-commerce. Our platform helps advertisers and retailers implement, automate, and scale their marketing programs across the internet. We work on hundreds of terabytes of data using the latest Microsoft cloud infrastructure, have a very solid focus on customer satisfaction, and leverage data driven metrics to delight our customers. The world of Ads is rapidly changing with Copilot and we have multiple workflows being created to help advertisers scale faster thane ever before. This is a formidable opportunity to join Microsoft Ads, work on one of the most highly distributed computing systems and be part of a fast-growing business.

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.

Starting January 26, 2026, Microsoft AI (MAI) employees who live within a 50- mile commute of a designated Microsoft office in the U.S. or 25-mile commute of a non-U.S., country-specific location are expected to work from the office at least four days per week. This expectation is subject to local law and may vary by jurisdiction.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and deliver innovative and impactful features along with ensuring high quality.
• Work on coding, debugging, testing, and troubleshooting throughout the application development process.  
• Must be self-driven, curious to learn, proactive, and impact oriented.
• Work across partner teams to understand scenarios and requirements.
• Instrument product areas, gather and analyze telemetry to assess scenario health and make improvements that benefit customers.
• Possess knowledge and is curious to learn more about performance, scalability, enterprise system architecture, and engineering best practices.
• Acts as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) working on-call to monitor system/product feature/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions and gains approval to restore system/product/service for simple problems.
  
  

Qualifications

Required/Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 8+ 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

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or related technical field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python.
• Solid CS fundamentals & problem-solving skills with exposure to distributed systems, drive for results, and ability to work independently.
• Experience working on Backend tech stack will be a big plus!
• Excellent technical design, problem solving and debugging skills, proven track record of leading a product or shipping software on time, with high quality.
• Great team player and communicator, solid believer in collaboration and teamwork.
• Experience and success in working with ambiguity and taking risks.
• Prior experience in online search/ads products.
• Knowledge of Microsoft Azure, AWS or similar cloud computing platforms is preferred.
• Design, develop, and deliver innovative and impactful features along with ensuring high quality.
• Work as a mentor to the group to deliver frugal solutions.
• Work on coding, debugging, testing, and troubleshooting throughout the application development process.  
• Must be self-driven, curious to learn, proactive, and impact oriented.
• Work across partner teams to understand scenarios and requirements.
  
  

This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.