Senior Software Engineer (AI)

TL;DR

Senior Software Engineer (AI): Reinventing advertising outcomes measurement in the AI era by building always-on measurement foundations for performance and optimization at a global scale with an accent on transforming raw conversion events into actionable attribution signals. Focus on improving reliability, observability, and operational excellence for business-critical services, and evolving our attribution platform.

Location: Starting January 26, 2026, employees who live within a 50-mile commute of a designated Microsoft office in the U.S. are expected to work from the office at least four days per week

Salary: USD $119,800 – $234,700 per year

Company

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

What you will do

• Collaborate with stakeholders to determine requirements for attribution logic scenarios.
• Drive the development of design documents for attribution logic and data contracts.
• Create, implement, optimize, and refactor code to improve the correctness, performance, and maintainability of attribution components.
• Define evaluation methodology, success metrics, and rollout validation for attribution logic changes.
• Act as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) by monitoring attribution systems, triaging issues, and driving mitigations.
• Proactively seek new knowledge and adapt to new trends/solutions to improve reliability and observability.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience.

Nice to have

• Master’s Degree in Computer Science or related field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR Bachelor’s Degree and 8+ years experience OR equivalent experience.
• Data-oriented background: experimentation, causal thinking, or statistical evaluation of product changes.
• Experience designing, implementing, and operating large-scale batch/analytics processing using Spark.
• Hands-on experience building or evolving ads conversion tracking and attribution systems.
• Experience with identity resolution / graph-based matching and understanding of how opt-out, consent, and privacy compliance shape identifier usage and attribution logic.

Culture & Benefits

• Employees come together with a growth mindset.
• Innovate to empower others.
• Collaborate to realize shared goals.
• Values of respect, integrity, and accountability.
• Create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.