Are you interested in building the next state-of-the-art AI infrastructure to fuel Microsoft's rapidly growing multi-billion online advertiser business? Are you passionate about using big data and machine learning to solve real world customer problems and delight hundreds of millions of Bing users? How about working in a fun and fast paced environment where engineers are empowered to innovate? If so, please come join our Microsoft Ads team. We engineer massively scalable streaming systems and services that form the backbone of Bing's ~$10B monetization engine, covering all aspects of online advertising such as advertiser facing demand ingestion/management/insights, preparation and transformation of huge volume of advertising data to be served, and performing low latency and high throughput online serving. Tough competition in the industry has created enormous opportunities as well as technical challenges in Big Data, Distributed Systems, and Machine Learning/Deep Learning. If you would like to tackle these challenges and be part of a winning team, we are the right place for you! 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** + Partners with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a set of scenarios. + Leads identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for a product, application, service, or platform. + Leads by example and mentors others to produce extensible and maintainable code used across products. + Leverages subject-matter expertise of cross-product features with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project managers) to drive multiple group's project plans, release plans, and work items. + Holds accountability as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI), mentoring engineers across products/solutions, working on-call to monitor system/product/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions. + Proactively seeks new knowledge and adapts to new trends, technical solutions, and patterns that will improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while also driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale and shares knowledge with other engineers. **Qualifications** **Required Qualifications:** + 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 + OR equivalent experience. **Preferred Qualifications:** + Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science + OR related technical field AND 10+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python + OR Master'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, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python + OR equivalent experience. + Work related to data engineering domain including hadoop like distributed systems and spark/scala platform \#MicrosoftAI 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) .