Software Engineer 2

Are you interested in building the next state-of-the-art AI infrastructure to fuel Microsoft's rapidly growing multi-billion online advertiser business?
Are you passionate about using big data and machine learning to solve real world customer problems and delight hundreds of millions of Bing users?
How about working in a fun and fast paced environment where engineers are empowered to innovate? If so, please come join our Microsoft Ads team. We engineer massively scalable streaming systems and services that form the backbone of Bing's ~$10B monetization engine, covering all aspects of online advertising such as advertiser facing demand ingestion/management/insights, preparation and transformation of huge volume of advertising data to be served and performing low latency and high throughput online serving.
Competition in the industry has created enormous opportunities as well as technical challenges in Big Data, Distributed Systems, and Machine Learning/Deep Learning. If you would like to tackle these challenges and be part of a winning team, we are the right place for you!

Qualifications (Required)
* BS/MS in Computer Science/Engineering or equivalent industry experience
* 3+ years of experience building and shipping high performance and scalable software in C++ or Java/C#
(Preferred Qualifications)
* Knowledge on design and implement performant Azure based services and tools
* Experience working with one or more of the following technologies: MVC, relational database/SQL, Hadoop, Kafka, Spark, HBase, Hive, Pig, Cosmosdb, Python, Powershell, ASP.Net, and large scale online distributed systems knowledge.
* Knowledge of information retrieval, machine learning, or AI technology.
* Good understanding of the software development cycle and Agile development practice.
* Passion for solving complex and interest problems.
* Fast learner and ability to prioritize and manage several tasks at once.
* Strong writing, communication, and coordination skills.

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.

* Design, Develop & Operate – Bing Product Ads Streaming & Big data processing infrastructures including inverted index building, science modeling data generation, image feature extraction & processing, near real time web page crawling & feature extraction, and context re-write infrastructures.
* Evaluate and optimize code to maximize performance.
* Experienced SDE will be responsible to mentor junior SDE and solely drive feature development from ground zero.