Principal Software Engineer, Ads Systems

Microsoft
San Francisco, CA, United States
10 days ago

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience level
Expert
Experience required
5 years minimum
Compensation
$142,800.0 - $274,800.0
Working hours
Regular working hours
Job source

Tech stack

C (Programming Language) Java (Programming Language) JavaScript (Programming Language) Microsoft Azure C Sharp (Programming Language) C++ (Programming Language) Computer Programming Software Debugging Programming Tools Distributed Systems Python (Programming Language) Machine Learning
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Software Engineering Multithreading Information Technology

Job description

  • 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 of 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.
  • Escalates issues to appropriate owners.
  • Builds knowledge, shares new ideas, and shares 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.
  • Contributes 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.

Requirements

annual growth rate. This is a self-motivated and results driven environment that will unleash your potential., * Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python

  • OR equivalent experience.

Preferred Qualification:

  • 5+ years of experience in distributed system engineering and multi-threading programming.
  • 5+ years of experience in machine learning and online system design, implementation and qualification.
  • 5+ years of experience in profiling and analyzing distributed system performance and capacity bottlenecks.
  • 5+ years of experience in Azure.
  • Experienced in distributed system engineering and high-performance programming.

MicrosoftAI

Software Engineering IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $142,800 - $274,800 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $188,000 - $304,200 per year.

About the company

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 information retrieval, data mining, machine learning, statistical modeling, optimization, linear algebra, and micro-economics, to solve challenging problems that arise in online advertising. Ads Frontdoor is at the core of this effort, working on large distributed systems with low latency and high throughput. Today, we design, develop, and operate a global ads marketplace that has a double-digit

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