Principal Software Engineer

Job Description

Seeking a Principal Software Engineer to optimize ads performance for Microsoft Advertising by bidding on behalf of advertisers into real-time auctions, utilizing algorithm development, optimization, and experimental analysis.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C#, Java, Scala, or Python OR equivalent experience.
• 4+ years of hands-on experience with large-scale streaming platforms such as Apache Spark or Flink.
• 4+ years of experience in designing, building, and maintaining machine learning modeling systems and pipeline.
• 4+ years of experience as a technical lead, including mentoring and guiding engineers.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate closely with data scientists and engineers to architect and develop the auto-bidding platform and associated pipelines.
• Design the platform to align with evolving advertiser product requirements, ensuring high-quality, timely delivery of features and enhancements.
• Build and optimize high-performance, scalable, and robust auto-bidding applications leveraging machine learning models both offline and online scenarios.
• Develop systems that enable reproducibility and traceability across modeling, optimization, and pacing components within the auto-bidding ecosystem.
• Implement large-scale data validation and quality assurance frameworks to ensure accuracy and consistency across all data inputs and outputs.
• Design and maintain comprehensive monitoring and alerting systems to ensure the reliability and performance of data pipelines and bidding applications.
• Construct scalable data pipeline to support rapid experimentation, real-time dashboards, deep insights for decision-making, and AI agentic workflows for automating analysis.

Benefits

• Industry leading healthcare
• Educational resources
• Discounts on products and services
• Savings and investments
• Maternity and paternity leave
• Generous time away
• Giving programs
• Opportunities to network and connect