14 hours ago
Base Salary
$143k - $304k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own critical components of the ads serving stack end-to-end, improving scalability, performance, reliability, maintainability, observability, and engineering efficiency.
- Lead the evolution of the core auction and pricing engine for correctness, efficiency, low latency, revenue, and ad quality.
- Drive ambiguous, high-impact technical initiatives from concept through delivery across multiple teams.
- Set architectural direction through design reviews, shared platform modernization, and development framework improvements.
- Partner with engineering, product, design, and applied science teams on complex cross-functional features and AI-powered advertising capabilities.
- Improve developer productivity through tooling, automation, and platform investments.
- Mentor engineers and establish high engineering standards across the organization.
- Drive operational excellence through incident response, root-cause analysis, capacity planning, and performance optimization.
- Translate long-term technical strategy into a prioritized roadmap supporting customer experience, reliability, and business growth.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field and 6+ years of technical engineering experience with coding, or equivalent experience.
- Coding experience in C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python.
- Preferred: master’s degree and 8+ years of technical engineering experience, or bachelor’s degree and 12+ years of experience, or equivalent experience.
- Preferred: 5+ years owning and operating production services as a Designated Responsible Individual or on-call owner.
- Experience designing, building, and operating large-scale distributed systems across the full software development lifecycle.
- Strong technical design, problem-solving, debugging, cross-team leadership, architectural influence, and communication skills.
- Experience building shared platforms, frameworks, or developer productivity solutions.
- Experience with online advertising, search, or other high-scale, low-latency distributed systems.
Benefits
- The typical U.S. base pay range is $142,800–$274,800 per year, with a separate San Francisco Bay Area and New York City metropolitan range of $188,000–$304,200 per year.
- Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.
- Employees within a 50-mile commute of a designated U.S. Microsoft office, or a 25-mile commute of a designated non-U.S. location, are expected to work from the office at least four days per week starting January 26, 2026, subject to local law and jurisdiction.
- The position will remain open for at least five days and accepts applications on an ongoing basis until filled.
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About Microsoft
Microsoft develops operating systems, productivity software, cloud services, developer tools, and consumer devices for individuals, enterprises, and governments. Its main products include Windows, Microsoft 365, Azure, Visual Studio/GitHub, Xbox, and LinkedIn; revenue comes from software subscriptions and licenses, cloud consumption, hardware sales, and advertising. Founded in 1975 and headquartered in Redmond, Washington, Microsoft is a public company traded on Nasdaq.