The Principal Software Engineer will be part of the Ads Frontdoor team, focusing on building highly scalable and performant services that host advanced machine learning models. This role involves working with stakeholders to define feature requirements and ensuring that systems meet security and compliance standards. The team operates within a fast-growing online advertising marketplace, emphasizing innovation and collaboration. The position requires a strong technical background and a commitment to quality and efficiency in software development.

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python.
• 5+ years of experience in distributed system engineering and multi-threading programming.
• 5+ years of experience in machine learning and online system design, implementation and qualification.
• 5+ years of experience in profiling and analyzing distributed system performance and capacity bottlenecks.
• 5+ years of experience in Azure.

• Work with BingAds stakeholders to determine requirements for new features to drive up Ads business.
• Create system design for feature requirements.
• Assure system meets security and compliance requirements and expectations.
• Implement features with high efficiency, extensibility, diagnosability, reliability, and maintainability.
• Review code to ensure it meets quality standards and is appropriate for the scale of the product feature.
• Maintain operations of live service as issues arise on a rotational, on-call basis.
• Identify solutions and mitigations to simple and complex issues and escalate as necessary.
• Act as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) monitoring system/product feature/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions.
• Respond within Service Level Agreement (SLA) timeframe and escalate issues to appropriate owners.
• Build knowledge, share new ideas, and improve software developer tools.
• Contribute to the development of automation within production and deployment of a product feature.
• Profile and analyze distributed system performance and capacity bottlenecks.
• Propose and implement solutions to improve system latency and capacity.

• Employees at Microsoft are often offered comprehensive, “world-class” benefits—including health and mental-wellness programs, competitive pay with bonuses and stock awards, and retirement/savings options. Time-off and flexibility are common, with generous vacation and holidays, parental and caregiver leave, and flexible work schedules, alongside learning support, employee resource groups, product discounts, and matching-gifts/volunteering programs. Specific benefits can vary by region.