Senior Software Engineer

Microsoft's Windows and Web Experiences (WWE) team creates innovative AI-powered and personalized web experiences in Microsoft Bing, Microsoft Edge and Microsoft Start, that inform, entertain, add value, save money, and breathe productivity into the life and work of millions of customers. WWE makes the web work for our consumers, advertisers, and publishers in a safe environment where everyone can get informed, entertained, save money and thrive!  

The Feeds & Verticals organization builds tools to connect people to content that matters. We aim to make Microsoft Start the content powerhouse for every person on the planet by delivering personalized experiences. Our team is looking for a passionate and self-driven developer to join our AI-driven campaign team. The most qualified candidate will be responsible for maintaining and enhancing our large-scale system that delivers over 250 million campaigns daily within strict time-constrained SLAs. You will be part of a data-driven team, committed to leveraging analytics to drive campaign efficiency and effectiveness. 

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

• Collaborates with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a scenario. 
• Drives identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for a product, application, service, or platform. 
• Creates, implements, optimizes, debugs, refactors, and reuses code to establish and improve performance and maintainability, effectiveness, and return on investment (ROI). 
• Leverages subject-matter expertise of product features and partners with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project managers) to drive a workgroup's project plans, release plans, and work items. 
• Acts as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) and guides other engineers by developing and following the playbook, working on call to monitor system/product/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions, alerting stakeholders about status and initiates actions to restore system/product/service for simple and complex problems when appropriate. 
• Proactively seeks new knowledge and adapts to new trends, technical solutions, and patterns that will improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while also driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale. 
• Embody our Culture and Values
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Qualifications

Required 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.
• 4+ years of experience in software design and development in full stack systems. 

Other Requirements:

Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings:

• Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years therea