Are you passionate about building high-scale, low-latency systems that power intelligent decision-making across billions of daily transactions? Microsoft Monetize is Microsoft’s online advertising platform where advertisers bid to display ads, product listings, and videos to users across web and mobile experiences. It serves as a data-enabled technology platform that optimizes return on investment for both buyers and sellers, while maintaining commitment to an open marketplace and empowering the open web globally. As part of this team, you’ll help build the next generation of backend services that enable real-time bidding, dynamic pricing, and supply optimization.We’re looking for a solid
Senior Software Engineer
to join our Monetize engineering team, where you’ll help shape the future of ad delivery and monetization. You’ll work on systems that process massive volumes of data with strict latency and reliability requirements. The problems you’ll tackle include designing scalable APIs, optimizing auction logic, improving system observability, and enhancing live site resilience. You’ll collaborate with product managers, data scientists, and engineers across disciplines to deliver impactful solutions that scale globally.We’re looking for engineers who are curious, collaborative, and passionate about solving complex technical challenges. If you thrive in fast-paced environments, care deeply about engineering excellence, and want to build systems that make a measurable impact—this is the team for you.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
- Own and influence the architecture roadmap and vision along with solid execution. Lead key technical initiatives and serve as the lead on our most technically complex, cross-functional projects.
- Design and implement scalable backend services for real-time delivery and decisioning, optimizing for performance, fault tolerance, and resource efficiency.
- Build and maintain APIs and high-throughput data pipelines to support seamless request processing, partner integrations, and intelligent decision workflows.
- Improve system reliability and observability through telemetry instrumentation, monitoring dashboards, and resilient service architecture.
- Lead deep-dive investigations and performance tuning to resolve production issues, minimize latency, and maintain high availability across critical systems.
- Collaborate with product managers and engineering leaders to align technical execution with business goals, contributing both as a team player and independent problem solver.
- Champion engineering excellence by advancing automated testing, CI/CD workflows, and maintaining high-quality documentation and design artefacts.
- Own live site operations, including on-call rotations and root cause analysis, with a quality-first mindset focused on rapid recovery and continuous improvement of service health.
Qualifications
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.
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
- 6+ years of experience
- Proficiency in C/C++ language.
- Proficient in back-end (API/Server) coding and Azure experience.
- Experience in data processing like Kafka, Hadoop and similar areas.
- Experience in ad tech, programmatic advertising, or real-time systems, knowledge of Open RTB, auction theory, or bid optimisation.
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