Microsoft

Principal Software Engineer, Online Ads Systems

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2 months ago
Redmond, WA, USAStaff+
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Base Salary

$143k - $304k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Collaborate with Bing Ads stakeholders to define requirements for features that drive advertising business growth.
  • Design systems and implement highly efficient, extensible, diagnosable, reliable, and maintainable product features.
  • Ensure solutions meet security, compliance, testing, and quality expectations.
  • Review product code for quality, reliability, accuracy, and scalability.
  • Operate live services through rotational on-call coverage, monitor for degradation or downtime, and respond within SLA timeframes.
  • Identify mitigations, resolve issues, and escalate incidents to appropriate owners.
  • Improve developer tools, production automation, and deployment automation.
  • Profile distributed-system performance and capacity bottlenecks and implement solutions to improve latency and capacity for online serving requirements.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in computer science or a related technical field and 6+ years of technical engineering experience coding in languages including C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python, or equivalent experience.
  • Preferred: 5+ years of distributed systems engineering and multithreaded programming experience.
  • Preferred: 5+ years of machine learning and online system design, implementation, and qualification experience.
  • Preferred: 5+ years of profiling and analyzing distributed-system performance and capacity bottlenecks.
  • Preferred: 5+ years of experience with Azure and high-performance programming.

Benefits

  • Employees within a 50-mile commute of a designated U.S. Microsoft office or 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.
  • Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.
  • Microsoft provides equal employment opportunity and accommodations for religious needs and disabilities.
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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.

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