Senior Software Engineer | Microsoft Careers

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Work type: Hybrid
Location: —
Salary: $119,800–$234,700 / yr
Posted: 9 days ago
Closes: Nov 23, 2026

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This role $177k

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TL;DR · Senior Software Engineer | Microsoft Careers

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Join the Auction Logic team as a Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft, where you will lead cross-team engineering efforts to build business-critical products for publishers and buyers on the Monetize platform. You will collaborate with passionate engineers, own significant areas of the real-time platforms, and function as an architect while setting the roadmap and direction for your responsibilities. The team builds core components of a large-scale distributed platform that processes over 5 million queries per second under strict real-time constraints. Required skills include experience in building high-performance, multi-threaded, distributed systems, advanced optimization techniques, and solid computer science fundamentals. You will design scalable solutions, participate in planning sessions with product teams, mentor junior engineers, and support production-level issues while continuously innovating and improving processes.

Skills

C++ Python Linux Docker Kubernetes AWS Azure CI/CD Terraform PostgreSQL Redis gRPC RESTful APIs Microservices Service-Oriented Architecture Event-Driven Architectures Real-Time Systems High Performance Computing Messaging Queues RabbitMQ Prometheus Grafana

What you'll do

Lead the design and implementation of scalable solutions for new features on the Monetize platform.
Participate in planning sessions with Product Management to construct feature requirements and specifications.
Mentor junior engineers on best practices in software development and code efficiency.
Support and debug production-level issues, providing timely fixes and improvements.
Optimize high-performance, multi-threaded, distributed systems under strict real-time constraints.

What we're looking for

5+ years of professional software development experience.
Proven expertise in building high-performance, multi-threaded, distributed systems.
Strong understanding of advanced optimization techniques and service-oriented architecture.
Solid foundation in computer science fundamentals including data structures and algorithms.
Experience with Linux environment for system development and deployment.