# Principal Software Engineer

**Company**: Microsoft
**Location**: Redmond, WA
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology
**Ticker**: MSFT
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2283

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## Description

The Ads Data Platform Team, part of Microsoft AI, is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to work in Redmond, WA.

As a Principal Software Engineer, you will design and operate high-scale, high-performance systems that process billions of events through near-real-time and offline pipelines. You will build data applications that directly impact Microsoft Ads' double-digit annual growth and work on cutting-edge technologies in distributed systems, machine learning, and big data.

Responsibilities:

- Design and operate high-scale, high-performance systems that process billions of events through near-real-time and offline pipelines.

- Build data applications that directly impact Microsoft Ads' double-digit annual growth.

- Work on cutting-edge technologies in distributed systems, machine learning, and big data.

- Collaborate with BingAds stakeholders to determine requirements for new features and create system designs.

- Implement features with high efficiency, extensibility, diagnosability, reliability, and maintainability.

- Review code to ensure it meets the team's and Microsoft's quality standards.

- Maintain operations of live service as issues arise on a rotational, on-call basis.

- Identify solutions and mitigations to simple and complex issues and escalate as necessary.

- Build knowledge, share new ideas, and identify engineering tool gaps to improve software developer tools.

- Profile and analyze distributed system performance and capacity bottlenecks.

Qualifications:

- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python.

- Experience in Azure, machine learning, and online system design, implementation, and qualification.

- 2+ years' experience in Distributed Systems and Big Data Technologies such as Spark, Hadoop, HDFS, Kafka, Flink, Scala.

## Skills

### Required
- C
- C++
- C#
- Java
- JavaScript
- Python
- Azure
- Machine Learning
- Distributed Systems
- Big Data Technologies

### Nice to have
- Master's Degree in Computer Science
- Experience in Spark, Hadoop, HDFS, Kafka, Flink, Scala

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