Software Engineer II
 Microsoft | |
 United States, Washington, Redmond | |
 Jan 28, 2025 | |
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OverviewMicrosoft'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.Online Advertising is one of the fastest growing businesses on the Internet today, with about $70 billions of a $600 billion advertising market already online. Search engines, web publishers, major ad networks, and ad exchanges are now serving billions of ad impressions per day and generating terabytes of user events data every day. The rapid growth of online advertising has created enormous opportunities as well as technical challenges that demand computational intelligence and scalable algorithms. Computational Advertising has emerged as a new interdisciplinary field that involves information retrieval, data mining, machine learning, statistical modeling, optimization, linear algebra, and micro-economics, to solve challenging problems that arise in online advertising.The Microsoft Ads Marketplace and Serving is a dynamic group responsible for developing a comprehensive platform that empowers users to manage the marketplace, monitor business KPIs, and optimize system performance. This platform serves as a one-stop-shop for a wide range of analytics, diagnostics, and debugging scenarios, offering valuable insights into Microsoft Ads demand, supply, user behavior, experimentation, and the Delivery Engine backend. In this self-motivated and results-driven environment, your potential will be fully realized. As a key member of our team, you will contribute to building a highly scalable and performant platform that impacts numerous components of our technology stack.
ResponsibilitiesDesign, implement, and ship infrastructure related features to enable ads metrics alerting, diagnostics, debugging, root cause analysis and monitoring.Optimize data processing pipelines and evolve architectures to maximize performance and minimize cost.Improve services and data analysis infrastructure to streamline CTS and integrate new business and system metrics.Deep dive into data to find key insights that drive technical design and feature roadmaps.Collaborate with partner teams in ads and Bing to implement diverse ads scenarios and capitalize on their innovations.Provide operational support for the product, addressing bugs and managing live site issues proactively. | |