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The Principal Software Engineer, Online Ads Systems joins the Ads Frontdoor team to build highly scalable, performant services hosting state-of-the-art machine learning models. This role involves collaborating with BingAds stakeholders to determine requirements, creating system designs, and implementing features with a focus on efficiency, reliability, and maintainability. Key responsibilities include reviewing code for quality, maintaining live services on a rotational basis, and profiling distributed system performance to resolve capacity bottlenecks. The candidate must utilize skills in C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python, alongside experience in multi-threading, distributed system engineering, and Azure. The work addresses the technical challenges of a global ads marketplace, specifically solving problems in high-throughput, low-latency environments involving information retrieval, data mining, statistical modeling, optimization, linear algebra, and micro-economics.
What does a Software Engineer earn?
Median $197400 from 2576 postings across 150 companies.
Determine requirements for new features with BingAds stakeholders to drive business growth.
Create system designs for new feature requirements.
Implement features with high efficiency, extensibility, reliability, and maintainability.
Review product code to ensure it meets quality standards and handles product scale.
Maintain live service operations and respond to issues on a rotational, on-call basis.
Profile and analyze distributed system performance and capacity bottlenecks.
Propose and implement solutions to improve system latency and capacity for online serving.
Contribute to the development of automation within production and product feature deployment.
What we're looking for
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field and 6+ years of technical engineering experience with coding in languages like C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python.
Equivalent experience to the degree and years of experience requirement.
5+ years of experience in distributed system engineering and multi-threading programming (preferred).
5+ years of experience in machine learning and online system design, implementation, and qualification (preferred).
5+ years of experience in profiling and analyzing distributed system performance and capacity bottlenecks (preferred).
5+ years of experience in Azure (preferred).
Experience in distributed system engineering and high-performance programming (preferred).
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Data Access Patterns
Software Development Lifecycle
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C++
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
Microsoft Azure
AWS
Distributed Systems
Service-Oriented Architecture
AI
ML
Observability
Reliability Engineering
Telemetry
Data-Intensive Applications