August 9, 2025

Senior Software Engineer

Senior • Hybrid • On-site

$119,800 - $234,700/yr

Redmond, WA

Overview

Online Advertising is one of the fastest growing multi-billion-dollar businesses on the Internet today. Search engines, web publishers, major ad networks, and ad exchanges are now serving billions of ad impressions per day. Microsoft is innovating rapidly in this space to grow its share of this market by providing the advertising industry with a state-of-the-art online advertising platform and service.

In the Microsoft Advertising Platform team, we are building the marketing solutions for the next generation of e-commerce. Our platform helps advertisers and retailers implement, automate, and scale their marketing programs across the internet. We work on hundreds of terabytes of data using the latest Microsoft cloud infrastructure, have a very strong focus on customer satisfaction, and leverage data driven metrics to delight our customers. This is an excellent opportunity to join Microsoft Ads, work on one of the most highly distributed computing systems and be part of a fast-growing business.
 
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.

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.
  • 3+ years experience in building scalable, secure, high performance products and services on the backend.

 

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 thereafter.

 

Additional or preferred qualifications

  • Master'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
    • OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C#, C, C++, Java, JavaScript, or Python
    • OR equivalent experience.
  • Excellent technical design, problem solving and debugging skills, proven track record in shipping software on time, with high quality.

  • Great team player and communicator, strong believer in collaboration and teamwork.

  • Knowledge of Distributed systems design, Microsoft Azure, AWS or similar cloud computing platforms is preferred.

  • Experience in online advertising is a plus.

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.

 

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

 

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until August 18, 2025. 

 

Responsibilities

  • Design, develop, and deliver innovative and impactful features.
  • Work on coding, debugging, testing, and troubleshooting throughout the application development process.  

  • Drive long-term architectural improvements and development for highly scalable services with quality, performance, and maintainability as core tenets.

  • Drive Collaboration across teams to deliver high quality solutions from concept to release and live operations.

  • Mentor and develop engineers across all levels through sharing and learning.