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Vancouver, CanadaSenior
Responsibilities
- Own technical direction and execution for core components of Microsoft Ads’ high-scale, latency-sensitive real-time bidding service.
- Design and implement scalable, high-performance backend systems under strict latency, reliability, and stability requirements.
- Lead platform modernization and improve code quality, maintainability, and operational safety.
- Ensure service performance, scalability, and stability as traffic, data volume, and business requirements grow.
- Define and evolve instrumentation, observability, and experimentation capabilities for data-driven decisions and safe production changes.
- Collaborate with engineering, data science, experimentation, product, and infrastructure partners.
- Provide technical leadership and mentorship while influencing architecture decisions and engineering practices across teams.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field and 4+ years of technical engineering experience with coding, or equivalent experience.
- Experience with one or more of C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python.
- Experience with high-throughput production systems where scalability, latency, and stability are critical.
- Ability to design, evolve, and maintain complex systems over time.
- Experience collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver business-aligned solutions.
- Ability to analyze and address performance or reliability issues in production environments.
- Preferred: master’s degree and 6+ years of experience, or bachelor’s degree and 8+ years of experience, or equivalent experience.
- Preferred: experience with real-time bidding systems, ad tech, or high-frequency decision systems.
- Preferred: familiarity with experimentation platforms, A/B testing, or traffic-shaping systems.
- Preferred: experience with ML-driven decision systems or integrating models into production pipelines.
- Preferred: exposure to large-scale data processing or feature pipelines.
- Preferred: experience with cloud environments and modern deployment practices.
Benefits
- Microsoft AI employees within a 50-mile commute of a designated U.S. 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.
- The position will be open for at least five days, with applications accepted continuously 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.