# Software Engineer - Backend

**Company**: Microsoft
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: Software Engineering IC4
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology
**Ticker**: MSFT
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2283

**Apply**: https://microsoft.ai/job/software-engineer-backend-2/
**Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_7c396ad8-fd1

## Description

The Bing Ads Delivery System team builds and operates the large-scale, low-latency systems that power Microsoft Advertising. Our services run globally, sit on the critical revenue path, and must be highly reliable, efficient, and correct.

We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer passionate about distributed systems, high-performance C++, and building production-grade services with a solid customer-obsessed and live-site-first mindset.

Microsoft's mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals.

Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

Responsibilities:

- Design and build large-scale distributed systems for real-time ads delivery.

- Write high-performance, reliable C++ code in latency-critical services.

- Own services end to end: design, coding, testing, deployment, monitoring, and live-site operations.

- Drive improvements in performance, scalability, availability, and reliability.

- Troubleshoot live-site issues and strengthen system resiliency.

- Collaborate with partner teams across Ads Serving, Ranking, and Infrastructure.

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.

- Experience building and operating large-scale, high-availability systems.

- Proven ability to debug and operate complex production systems.

- Willingness to learn new technologies and continuously grow skills.

- Solid ownership, teamwork, and customer focus.

- Experience with ads systems, search, or other real-time decision systems.

- Background in performance optimization and distributed infrastructure.

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## Skills

### Required
- C++
- Distributed Systems
- High-Performance Coding
- Production-Grade Services
- Customer-Obsessed Mindset
- Live-Site-First Approach

### Nice to have
- Ads Systems
- Search
- Real-Time Decision Systems
- Performance Optimization
- Distributed Infrastructure