Senior Software Engineer, Ads

Join our innovative and fast-paced team within Bing Ads, where we are making impactful advancements in the advertising industry. Our recent achievements have driven significant revenue growth, and we’re seeking driven individuals to help us sustain this momentum. In our team, you’ll work on cutting-edge products for Ad Quality and Publishers monetization, focusing on enhancing user experience, building scalable reporting solutions for publishers, working with distributed systems, and delivering top-quality ads.

As a Software Engineer on our team, you will play a crucial role in building solutions for publisher onboarding, ensure publisher quality verification, and provide comprehensive revenue and quality reports. Additionally, you’ll work to deliver top-quality ads to our publishers. This role offers a unique opportunity to accelerate your career growth, deepen your business acumen, and sharpen your technical skills. You’ll be part of a remote team, giving you the flexibility to work from home and manage your schedule efficiently.

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Starting January 26, 2026, Microsoft AI (MAI) employees who live within a 50- mile commute of a designated Microsoft office in the U.S. or 25-mile commute of a non-U.S., country-specific location are expected to work from the office at least four days per week. This expectation is subject to local law and may vary by jurisdiction.

• Works with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a set of features.
• Contributes to the identification of dependencies, and the development of design documents for a product area with little oversight.
• Creates and implements code for a product, service, or feature, reusing code as applicable.
• Contributes to efforts to break down larger work items into smaller work items and provides estimation.
• Acts as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) working on-call to monitor system/product feature/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions and gains approval to restore system/product/service for simple problems.
• Remains current in skills by investing time and effort into staying abreast of current developments that will improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while also driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field 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.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master'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 Bachelor'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.
• 8+ years of experience building and operating reliable, scalable services and platforms.
• Experience designing and operating production-scale distributed systems.
• Experience leveraging AI/ML technologies and AI-powered development tools to build intelligent applications and improve engineering productivity.
• Solid problem-solving skills with the ability to navigate ambiguity and drive clarity.
• Hands-on mindset with a passion for learning new technologies, including emerging AI and cloud-based solutions.
• Hands-on experience with Azure DevOps and familiarity with its suite of tools for effective collaboration and delivery
• Familiarity with distributed systems ,event driven architectures and Azure cloud.
• Excellent coding skills, solid in OOPS, OOAD, design patterns and their application.
• Solid understanding of Azure cloud platforms, services, and architecture.
• Ability to both work independently and coordinate across geographies.
• Ability to communicate complex ideas and concepts to a variety of cross-group stakeholders.
• Solid organization skills, a bias for action, and ability to deliver results.
• Proven ability to deal with ambiguity and drive for clarity.
• Demonstrated ability to work efficiently, prioritize workflow, ramp quickly, and meet demanding deadlines.

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Software Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $119,800 - $234,700 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $160,200 - $261,000 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:
https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

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

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. 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 with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.