Description
Join Microsoft Advertising’s Billing Platform team as a Principal Software Engineer and help power one of the company’s most business-critical systems.
Our platform manages the end-to-end financial lifecycle for advertisers, including revenue recognition, invoicing, payments, tax compliance, budget control, financial reporting, and large-scale billing operations across global markets.
As a Principal Software Engineer, you will provide technical leadership for a distributed, mission-critical platform that processes billions of dollars in advertiser spend.
You will drive architecture modernization, platform reliability, AI-powered operational excellence, and new monetization capabilities while partnering across Finance, CRM, Measurement, Payments, and Marketplace teams.
Responsibilities
- Lead the architecture and evolution of Microsoft’s Advertising Billing Platform.
- Design and build scalable services supporting billing, invoicing, payments, tax, revenue recognition, and financial reporting.
- Drive platform modernization, cloud migration, and architectural simplification.
- Establish engineering excellence standards for reliability, observability, security, and operational readiness.
- Partner with product, finance, and engineering teams to deliver new monetization models and global compliance requirements.
- Leverage AI and automation to improve diagnostics, incident response, developer productivity, and customer support experiences.
- Mentor senior engineers and influence technical strategy across the Platform organization.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python.
- Proven experience building large-scale distributed systems and cloud services.
- Solid system design and architectural leadership skills.
- Experience with financial systems, payments, billing, accounting, commerce, or enterprise platforms is highly desirable.
- Track record of driving cross-organizational initiatives and leading through influence.
Salary Information The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $142,800 – $274,800 per year.