Principal Software Engineer (AI)

TL;DR

Principal Software Engineer (AI): Designing and implementing infrastructure features for ads metrics alerting, diagnostics, and monitoring within Microsoft's online advertising business with an accent on optimizing data processing pipelines and architectures. Focus on leveraging data insights to drive technical design and feature roadmaps, working with partner teams to integrate different ads scenarios, and providing operational support to fix bugs and resolve live site issues.

Location: Multiple Locations, India

Company

Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more.

What you will do

• Design, implement, and ship infrastructure features for ads metrics alerting, diagnostics, and monitoring.
• Optimize data processing pipelines and evolve architectures to maximize performance and minimize cost.
• Enhance flight analysis infrastructure to optimize CTS and add new business metrics.
• Deep dive into data to find key insights that drive technical design and feature roadmaps.
• Collaborate with partner ads and Bing teams to integrate different ads scenarios.
• Provide operational support to fix bugs and mitigate/resolve live site issues.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related technical field.
• 8+ years of technical engineering experience with coding in C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python, or equivalent experience.
• Experience working on large‑scale big data systems such as Cosmos, Hadoop, Magnetar, or equivalent platforms (nice to have).
• Experience building or operating streaming data pipelines (e.g., real‑time or near‑real‑time processing systems) (nice to have).
• Experience with Apache Spark and Scala technologies (nice to have).

Culture & Benefits

• Employees come together with a growth mindset and innovate to empower others.
• Values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion.
• Everyone can thrive at work and beyond.