Microsoft
Senior Software Engineering, Ads Platform
$120K–$261K
Redmond, WA · On-site · Senior · Full-time · Posted Jul 23, 2026
- Experience
- 4+ years technical engineering experience is required; also states 5+ years architecting, developing, deploying, and operating production distributed systems. Preferred alternatives: Master's degree plus 6+ years, or Bachelor's degree plus 8+ years, or equivalent experience.
- Education
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field, or equivalent experience.
About the job
Leads the design and delivery of scalable advertising platform services and customer-facing experiences, shaping architecture and improving reliability, performance, and customer outcomes.
What you'll do
- Design, build, and operate secure, reliable distributed systems and frontend and backend experiences.
- Lead technical architecture and end-to-end delivery of platform projects, including monitoring, experimentation, and operational excellence.
- Collaborate across teams, use telemetry and customer insights to improve products, and mentor engineers.
What they ask for
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field and 4+ years of technical engineering experience coding, or equivalent experience.
- 5+ years of experience architecting, developing, deploying, and operating distributed systems in production.
- Experience designing, building, deploying, and operating large-scale cloud services; experience with Microsoft Azure, AWS, or similar cloud platforms.
- Demonstrated ability to drive complex technical initiatives and influence engineering decisions across teams.
Nice to have
- Experience in online advertising, search, e-commerce, AI-powered experiences, or large-scale consumer products.
- Experience with AI/ML-enabled products, Copilot experiences, recommendation systems, or data-intensive applications.
Pay
USD $119,800 - $234,700 per year base salary; USD $160,200 - $261,000 per year base salary
Tools
C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Python, Microsoft Azure, AWS
AI focus
Works on advertising platform capabilities involving AI technologies and AI-powered experiences; experience with AI/ML-enabled products, Copilot experiences, recommendation systems, or data-intensive applications is preferred.
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