# Software Engineer - Backend

**Company**: Microsoft
**Location**: Redmond
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: USD $119,800 – $234,700 per year
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology
**Ticker**: MSFT
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2283

**Apply**: https://microsoft.ai/job/software-engineer-backend/
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## 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.

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 $158,400 – $258,000 per year.

## Skills

### Required
- C++
- Distributed Systems
- High-Performance Systems
- Latency-Critical Services
- Production-Grade Services
- Customer-Obsessed Mindset
- Live-Site-First Mindset
- Growth Mindset
- Innovation
- Collaboration
- Respect
- Integrity
- Accountability
- Inclusion
- Debugging
- Complex Production Systems
- Performance Optimization
- Distributed Infrastructure