Principal Software Engineer

Company: Microsoft Corporation
Location: Sunnyvale
Posted on: June 4, 2021

Job Description:

The Bing Ads MPS team is a world-class R&D team of passionate and talented scientists and engineers who aspire to solve challenging problems and turn innovative ideas into high-quality products and services that can help hundreds of millions of users and advertisers, and directly impact our business. Our experimentation infrastructure allows us to innovate and test new algorithms rapidly with live traffic to measure their effectiveness and launch them in production as soon as they produce positive results, which makes our work environment productive and rewarding. We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to incubate technologies from end to end to make product impact. The candidate will engage in high potential projects grounded in applications to improve our ad, query and web page understanding.

Required Skills:

7+ years of software development experience

BS/MS/PhD degree in CS or related areas with

Preferred skills

• Excellent Problem Solving and System Design Skills,
• Strong Data Structures and Algorithm fundamentals
• Extensive working experience working in one of the following areas:
• Big Data Systems like Hadoop, Spark
• Streaming Platforms like Storm, Spark Streaming, Kafka
• Full stack development like Angular, node.js, web services
• Passionate, self-motivated
• Effective communication skills, both verbal and written

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. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. 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.

• Determine problems to solve based on data analysis and customer requirements.
• Design and build large scale low latency serving systems and data infrastructures.
• Drive Collaborations within the team and with other teams in Microsoft.
• Participate in design and code reviews

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