Job Description

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. 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.

• Provide technical leadership, driving for impact across the org while following best engineering practices.
• Drive long term architecture so that we can continue to support business while building on the latest technical advancements.
• 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
• Analyze Giga/Tera bytes of logs and create observation/opportunities and avenues of improvements in the system
• Be a role model for an open, honest, and inclusive approach to problem solving.
• Mentor and develop engineers across all levels through sharing and learning.

Required Qualifications :

• 10+ years of demonstratable software development experience
• Proven track record architecting and developing robust and extensible solutions.
• Comfortable with a fast-paced environment and a high level of ambiguity.
• Bachelor's/Master's degree in Computer Science, related technical field, or equivalent field experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Excellent problem-solving capabilities with strong fundamentals in computer science
• 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 .

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 .

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