Software Engineer II

Are you interested in building the next state-of-the-art AI infrastructure to fuel Microsoft's rapidly growing multi-billion online advertiser business? Are you passionate about using big data and AI solutions to solve real world customer problems and delight hundreds of millions of Microsoft users? How about working in a fun and fast paced environment where engineers are empowered to innovate? If so, please come join our Microsoft Ads team in Mountain View, California! We engineer massively scalable low latency data processing systems and services that form the backbone of Microsoft Ad's multi-billion monetization engine, covering all aspects of online advertising such as advertiser facing demand ingestion/management/insights, preparation and transformation of huge volume of advertising data to be served, and performing low latency and high throughput online serving. Tough competition in the industry has created enormous opportunities as well as technical challenges in AI, Big Data, and Distributed Systems. If you would like to tackle these challenges and be part of a winning team, we are the right place 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

As a Software Engineer II:

• Works with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a set of features.
  
• Contributes to the identification of dependencies, and the development of design documents for a product area with little oversight.
  
• Creates and implements code for a product, service, or feature, reusing code as applicable.
  
• Contributes to efforts to break down larger work items into smaller work items and provides estimation.
  
• Contributes to the Ads infrastructure in the following areas: data ingestion/validation/processing, entity conflation, image processing, web document understanding, feature extraction, and index generation
  
• Conduct feature experiments to understand user behavior/marketplace impact and ship features to production.

Qualifications

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.
    
• Hands-on experience in one of areas are preferred: online advertising systems, information retrieval systems, big data processing pipelines, microservices, large scale internet applications, NLP/computer vision applications and/or distributed systems.

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.
• Solid understanding of OOD, data structure, algorithm, big data processing, data streaming, information retrieval, machine learning, web crawling, document understanding and AB testing knowledge.
• Experience working with one or more of the following technologies: .NET, NoSQL, Azure, ADLA/ADLS, ADF, HDFS, Spark, SQL, Kafka, LLM Python, Docker, Kubernetes, AI Model Inferencing Tools.

Software Engineering IC3 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $98,300 - $193,200 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $127,200 - $208,800 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

Microsoft will accept applications for this role until May 14th, 2025.

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.

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