Principal Software Engineer

Job description

Overview The Ads Data Platform Team, part of Microsoft AI (Artificial Intelligence), is hiring Principal Software Engineer. This role is available in Redmond, WA. Our team powers the backbone of Microsoft’s global ads marketplace—gathering, storing, and enriching over half a trillion ad-serving events every day. We build data platforms that fuel business analytics, machine learning models, and real-time reporting at massive scale. We are looking for an experienced Software Engineer to join the Ads Engineering team and help advance the core capabilities of our Ads serving stack. If you’re passionate about solving complex problems and driving innovation, this is the place for you. This system powers advertisements across a range of Microsoft services, including Bing Search, MSN, Start.com, and shopping experiences in the Edge browser. Our serving stack is a high-scale, low-latency, geo-distributed system with numerous components—including large-scale machine learning inference for ad ranking, real-time bidding infrastructure, and other subsystems supporting diverse ad scenarios. This role offers an exciting opportunity to contribute to the innovation and evolution of a system operati...