Senior Software Engineer

What if your job description were simply “make tomorrow better?” Every day at Microsoft, we bring an insatiable curiosity to the workplace, challenging ourselves to reimagine what it is and what it can be. We build on what’s come before to create what’s next. We help shape the future and we empower billions of people around the globe.  

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.   

We need candidates who have shipped products or worked on large scale online services and have 10 or more years of relevant software development experience. This is a rare opportunity to influence technology development in an important growth area at Microsoft.  You will design, implement, analyze and tune complex algorithms operating on large datasets in collaboration with top scientists and engineers across Microsoft’s global R&D team.  

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.

Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.

• BTech/MTech in Computer science is preferred  

• Excellent problem solving capabilities with strong fundamentals in computer science  

• Strong command over manipulating data structures and developing efficient algorithms  

• At least 10 years of experience as a software developer, coding an object-oriented programming language such as Java/Scala/C#, or C++  

• Experience working with Azure, AWS or other cloud platforms  

• Experience with distributed systems design and implementation, especially microservices architecture. 

• Experience working with Big Data technologies like Hadoop, Spark, Cosmos etc. is preferred. 

• Knowledge in at least one scripting language (Python, Perl, Ruby, etc.) is a plus  

• Design and development of large scale online and offline platform tools for Ads related products. 

• Develop novel algorithms in the space of sponsored search to constantly improve the operational efficacy and monetization impact to stake holders   

• Architect new designs and develop features for cloud-based applications 

• Analyze Giga/Tera bytes of logs and create observation/opportunities and avenues of improvements in the system  

• Ideate on newer aspects of advertising avenues and augment the platform with richer products for the stake holders