Job Description

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 are looking for a self-motivated

Senior Software Engineer

to join our dynamic Microsoft Advertising Delivery Engine team within the Microsoft AI organization. Our team focuses on building highly scalable distributed systems, leveraging microservice architecture, optimizing system performance. As a member of our team, you will participate in all stages of our engineering lifecycle, from initial research and discovery to designing and delivering features end-to-end. You will have ample opportunities to demonstrate your technical abilities and contribute to the success of our cloud services. Today, we design, develop, and operate a global ads marketplace that has a double-digit annual growth rate. This is a self-motivated and results driven environment that will unleash your potential. We need candidates who have shipped products or worked on large scale online services and have 7 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's mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

Responsibilities

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Architect and build low latency and high throughput system. Collaborate, socialize, and drive cross-team technical initiatives. Participate in design and code reviews. Mentor junior engineers in the team. Ensure high code quality, live site reliability, and scalability in our services. Drive new investments and vision for the product that you will own.

Qualifications

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Required Qualifications:

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python + OR equivalent experience.
Solid data structure and algorithm concepts. Solid design and problem-solving skills.

Other Requirements:

Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings:

Microsoft Cloud Background Check

: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Preferred Qualifications:

Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python + OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
+ OR equivalent experience.
7+ years experience in Object Oriented programming. Experience with GPU programming / CUDA.


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