Software Engineer - II

Microsoft Advertising (MSA) empowers the world’s largest advertisers to reach their maximum potential through digital advertising solutions on the Microsoft Advertising platform. Microsoft Monetize is a strategic selling platform that provides holistic inventory management controls and differentiated buyer demand, enabling you to unlock the full value of sellers' inventory. Microsoft Monetize offers comprehensive analytics and data solutions at a petabyte scale to help maximize value. 

The Monetize reporting team has built a platform that supports advanced analytics and data solutions, enabling marketplace sellers to maximize the value of their inventory through detailed and actionable insights. The platform is built on a data layer that processes and analyzes petabytes of advertising data to provide near real-time insights and comprehensive reports on revenue metrics. 

The Monetize reporting team is seeking a software engineer to join as an individual contributor to help drive and scale its reporting platform at Microsoft Advertising. This role requires technical prowess to quickly learn a multitude of technologies. The engineer will work on-site in Microsoft’s Bangalore or Pune offices, in close collaboration with engineers around the globe from the real-time platform and share platform teams. 

As a Software Engineer, you will join an engineering team responsible for the architecture, development, administration, and maintenance of the Monetize reporting and analytics platform. This platform is critical for our clients' success, and you'll play a key role in modernizing and enhancing it to handle constantly emerging quality challenges. You will collaborate with other teams and team members.

We are looking for a Software Engineer with strong technical skills in both front-end and back-end programming who can: 

• Participate in all stages of the SDLC, from design and development to deployment and maintenance. 

• Design and develop reliable, scalable, and testable applications, APIs, and database components. 

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams with diverse technology backgrounds. 

• Work closely with product owners, stakeholders, and users. 

Responsibilities 

• Design and development of software, applications, and services. 

• Testing and debugging software, applications, and services to keep them optimized. 

• Follow and recommend good engineering practices to improve team productivity. 

• Stay current with technological advances to continuously optimize codebases the team is responsible for. 

• Work with a security-first mindset, focusing on system scalability and maintainability. 

• Coach and mentor peers and emerging team members while advocating for best practices. 

• Be part of the team’s on-call rotation. 

 More About You 

• You are passionate about fostering a culture of learning and teaching. You love challenging yourself to constantly improve and sharing your knowledge to empower others. 

• You enjoy taking risks when searching for novel solutions to complex problems. When faced with roadblocks, you forge a path forward to achieve greatness. 

• You care about solving big, systemic problems. You look beyond the surface to understand root causes and build long-term solutions for the entire ecosystem. 

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.

About Your Skills 

• Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science or a related field preferred. 

• 5+ years of experience developing software solutions with a strong understanding of software best practices. 

• Proficient in full-stack development, both front-end (UI) and back-end (API/Server) coding. 

• Hands-on experience with at least one of the technologies listed below, with a willingness to adapt and learn new technologies and frameworks. Our current tech stack includes: 
  

• Languages – Go, Typescript, Python 

• Frontend frameworks – React 

• Databases – MySQL, Vertica/ClickHouse, Hadoop 

• Operating System – Linux 

• Containerization – Docker, Kubernetes (K8) 

• Other – Airflow, HDFS, Spring Boot, Kafka, Git/ADO, CI/CD