Principal Software Engineer (AI Experiences & Monetization)

Quick Facts

• Role: Principal Software Engineer for AI Experiences and monetization

• Scope: End-to-end platform design and delivery across backend services, APIs, data, and applications for campaign management

Description

You will design and build solutions across the stack for a modernized advertising campaign platform, including backend services, APIs, data storage and processing, and the customer-facing applications. The role emphasizes cloud-native re-architecture, scalable distributed systems, and AI-enabled engineering practices that speed delivery and improve advertiser workflows. You will own features from data model and service design through deployment and live-site operations.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate scalable backend services and APIs for campaign management, reporting, and optimization workflows

• Own features end to end across data models, storage, service logic, API contracts, and client applications

• Design distributed systems for high throughput, low latency, fault tolerance, and cost efficiency on cloud infrastructure

• Build and improve data flows using transactional stores, caching, asynchronous processing, messaging, and integrations with upstream/downstream ad platform systems

• Improve reliability, performance, security, observability, and maintainability across services and applications

• Lead technical design and architecture reviews and investigations for business-critical features

• Own production health: monitoring, alerting, capacity planning, incident response, and post-incident improvements

• Partner with product, design, and partner engineering teams to deliver end-to-end solutions for advertiser needs

• Advance AI-enabled engineering practices and integrate AI capabilities into platform services and advertiser workflows

• Mentor engineers through code reviews, design guidance, and knowledge sharing

• Identify opportunities to modernize legacy systems and reduce complexity to improve customer outcomes

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years of technical engineering experience coding in C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python (or equivalent)

• Ability to pass Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years

• Ability to meet Microsoft, customer, and/or government security screening requirements

Benefits

• Typical U.S. base pay range: USD $142,800 - $274,800 per year (location-specific ranges apply)

• Additional benefits and compensation may be available