Software Engineer II

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Online Advertising is one of the fastest growing businesses on the Internet today. 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. Even more, there is a huge emphasis on user privacy when it comes to targeted ads. Our team is building a real-time ad-serving platform that focuses on delivering more relevant ads while protecting user privacy.

We are looking for a Software Engineer II who has shipped products or worked on large scale online services and has 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.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 2+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
  • OR equivalent experience.
• Experience with efficient data structures, algorithms, asynchronous programming, and high-performance data processing.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline 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.
• Prior experience with C++.
• Demonstrated experience working on low latency systems.
• Familiar with information retrieval or ads systems.
• Prior experience with open-source contributions.

• Produce extensible and maintainable designs and code.
• Optimize, debug, and refactor code to improve performance and maintainability, and effectiveness.
• Apply metrics to drive the quality and stability of code, as well as appropriate coding patterns and best practices.
• Apply debugging tools and examine logs, telemetry, and other methods to verify assumptions through writing and developing code proactively before issues occur and reactively as issues occur for products.
• Review code to assure it meets quality standards, is reliable and accurate, and is appropriate for the scale of the product/solution area.
• Provide mentorship for other engineers.