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We are hiring an experienced Senior Software Engineer on the Ads Engineering team to help expand the core capabilities of the Ads serving stack that powers ads on several online services ranging from Bing Search, MSN, Start.com, Edge Browser shopping, etc. The stack is a low-latency, high-scale geo-distributed system with multiple moving parts that include but not limited to large-scale ML inferencing infrastructure that rank ad-listings to real-time bidding infrastructure and other components to power a wide variety of Ad serving scenarios and use cases.

This is an exciting opportunity to participate in the innovation and evolution of the stack, at a scale and pace very few other places can match. The challenges are plenty and the problems are varied from building new features to optimizing components of the entire stack as every millisecond matters to us, to building support infrastructure to run services in containers at scale. You will be part of a passionate and growing team that takes pride in their work. You will own and drive large feature areas and collaborate with some of the best engineers across the world. If you are someone that loves to tackle deep technical challenges and thrive in a fast-paced environment, then this is the place to be!

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

• Maintain operations of live service as issues arise on a rotational, on-call basis. Identifies solutions and mitigations to simple and complex issues and escalates as necessary.

• Act as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) working on call to monitor system/product feature/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions. Responds within Service Level Agreement (SLA) timeframe. Escalates issues to appropriate owners.

• Build knowledge, shares new ideas, and shares pinpoints of engineering tool gaps to improve software developer tools to support other programs, tools, and applications to create, debug, and maintain code for complex product features. Contributes to the development of automation within production and deployment of a complex product feature.

• Profile and analyze distributed system performance and capacity bottlenecks. Propose and implement solutions to improve system latency and capacity to meet BingAds online serving requirements.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python

• OR equivalent experience.

• 3+ years experience in distributed system engineering and multi-threading programming.

Additional or Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in GPU inference/training system design and optimization, CUDA programing.

• Experience in machine learning and online system design, implementation and qualification.

• Experience in profiling and analyzing distributed system performance and capacity bottlenecks.

Software Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across Canada is CAD $108,100 - CAD $199,700 per year.

Find additional pay information here:

https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/canada-pay-information.html

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until January 13, 2025.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations (https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/accessibility.html) .