Senior Software Engineer

Overview

What if your job description were simply make tomorrow better Every day at Microsoft, we bring an insatiable curiosity to the workplace, challenging ourselves to reimagine what it is and what it can be. We build on what's come before to create what's next. We help shape the future and we empower billions of people around the globe. 

Online Advertising is one of the fastest growing businesses on the Internet today, with about $70 billion of a $600 billion advertising market already online. Search engines, web publishers, major ad networks, and ad exchanges are now serving billions of ad impressions per day and generating terabytes of user events data every day. The rapid growth of online advertising has created enormous opportunities as well as technical challenges that demand computationally intelligence and scalable algorithms. Eventually Computational Advertising has emerged as a new interdisciplinary field that involves complex software engineering, system design, information retrieval, data mining, machine learning, statistical modeling, optimization, linear algebra, and micro-economics, to solve challenging problems that arise in online advertising.   

We need candidates who have shipped products or worked on large scale online services and have 6 or more years of relevant software development experience. In this team, you will be working on the design and implementation of sophisticated and low latency ranking and pricing ads online infrastructure and highly reliable online auction simulation platform. This is the core auction engine team you will be part of that drives money for Microsoft while ensures best experience for users and advertiser ROI. This is a rare opportunity to influence technology development in an important growth area at Microsoft. You will design, implement, analyze complex ads ranking stack in collaboration with top scientists and engineers across Microsoft's global R&D team.

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 and development of large scale online and offline platform tools for Ads related products.
• Architect new designs and develop features for cloud-based applications.
• Analyze Giga/Tera bytes of logs and create observation/opportunities and avenues of improvements in the system.
• Ideate on newer aspects of advertising avenues and augment the platform with richer products for the stake holders.
  
  

Qualifications

Required/Minimum 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 working with Azure, AWS or other cloud platforms.
• Experience with distributed systems design and implementation, especially microservices architecture.
• Experience working with Big Data technologies like Hadoop, Spark, Cosmos etc. is required.
  

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

• BTech/MTech in Computer science is preferred.
• Excellent problem solving capabilities with solid fundamentals in computer science.
• Solid command over manipulating data structures and developing efficient algorithms.
• At least 6 years of experience as a software developer, coding an object-oriented programming language such as Java/Scala/C#, or C++.
• Knowledge in at least one scripting language (Python, Perl, Ruby, etc.) is a plus.
  
  

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

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