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Are you passionate about large scale distributed systems? Do you find scalability challenges associated with serving millions of requests per second an interesting problem? In Microsoft Bing Ads, we are looking for strong engineers to help scale and tune our ad serving platforms, to be able to serve more traffic and improve Ad serving efficiency.

Online Advertising is one of the fastest growing businesses on the Internet today. 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. Our team works on a high scalable platform that connects thousands of publishers and ad networks, to deliver low latency Ads across the globe.

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer who has shipped products or worked on large scale online services and have five or more years of relevant software development experience. This is a rare opportunity to influence technology development in an important growth area at Microsoft.

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.

Responsibilities

• Produce extensible and maintainable designs and code.

• Optimize, debug, and refactor code to improve performance and maintainability, and effectiveness.

• Apply metrics to drive the quality and stability of code, as well as appropriate coding patterns and best practices.

• Apply debugging tools and examine logs, telemetry, and other methods to verify assumptions through writing and developing code proactively before issues occur and reactively as issues occur for products.

• Review code to assure it meets quality standards, is reliable and accurate, and is appropriate for the scale of the product/solution area.

• Provide mentorship for other engineers.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline 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.

• Experience in one or more of online advertising systems, information retrieval systems, web search systems, big data systems, database systems, large scale internet applications, operating system, or distributed systems.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Demonstarted experience working on low latency systems.

• Prior experience with C++.

• Familiar with information retrieval or ads systems.

• Prior experience with open-source contributions.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, 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 and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations (https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/accessibility.html) .