Principal Software Engineer Data Platform

Are you interested in building the next state-of-the-art AI infrastructure to fuel Microsofts 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 Bings $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!

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* Design implement and ship infrastructure related features related to enable ads metrics alerting diagnostics and monitoring

* Optimize data processing pipelines and evolve architectures to maximize performance and minimize cost.

* Enhance flight analysis infra to optimize CTS and add new business metrics

* Deep dive into data to find key insights that drive technical design and feature roadmaps

* Work with partner ads and Bing teams to light-up different ads scenarios and leverage their work

* Operational support for the product to fix bugs and mitigate/resolve livesites

Required Qualification

Bachelors 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.

Preferred Qualifications:
Experience working on largescale big data systems such as Cosmos Hadoop Magnetar or equivalent platforms
Experience building or operating streaming data pipelines (e.g. realtime or nearrealtime processing systems)
Experience with Apache Spark and Scala technologies
Bachelors Degree in Computer Science
o OR related technical field AND 8 years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including but not limited to C C C# Java JavaScript
o OR Python
o OR Masters 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
oOR equivalent experience.

This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

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