Service Engineer II, Ads Platform

Microsoft

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Hybrid

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Work type
Hybrid
Location
US
Salary
$102,100–$202,200 / yr
Posted
1 day ago
Freshness
Confirmed live today
Closes
Apr 25, 2027

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Microsoft Corporation is a global technology leader producing software, hardware, and cloud services including Windows, Office 365, Azure cloud platform, Xbox gaming, and Surface devices. Industry: Software & Cloud Computing

Microsoft currently has 687 open roles on FindRole.

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TL;DR · Service Engineer II, Ads Platform

The Service Engineer II - Ads Platform joins the Microsoft Advertising team to support the digital advertising platform across search, display, and video experiences. This role involves performing deep technical investigations into reliability, performance, and data-quality issues while designing and building AI-driven automation, scripts, and internal web tools to modernize support workflows. You will write production-quality code, implement fixes, and create automated test coverage for key workflows. The position requires proficiency in C#, Python, TypeScript/JavaScript, SQL, and Kusto (KQL) within Azure and GitHub/Azure DevOps environments. You will solve complex technical problems by converting customer evidence into actionable product plans, utilizing skills in REST APIs, distributed systems, and observability tools like logging, metrics, and tracing to improve operational efficiency and platform stability.

What you'll do

  • Perform deep technical investigations to solve complex reliability, performance, and data-quality issues across the platform.
  • Design and build AI-driven automation, scripts, and internal web tools to modernize support workflows.
  • Write production-quality code to implement fixes, create monitoring improvements, and contribute to shared libraries.
  • Convert customer escalation evidence into actionable product and engineering plans to address root causes.
  • Create and maintain automated test coverage for key workflows and participate in release readiness activities.
  • Develop durable operational improvements through documentation, playbooks, training, and self-service experiences.
  • Represent Support in product pilots and launches to advocate for quality guardrails and risk mitigation.

What we're looking for

  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, IT, Engineering, Data Science, Cybersecurity, or related field experience.
  • 2+ years of technical experience in software, network, service, systems engineering, or industrial controls.
  • Ability to meet Microsoft, customer, and/or government security screening requirements, including a Microsoft Cloud Background Check.
  • Solid coding skills in at least one general-purpose language like C#, Java, Python, or TypeScript/JavaScript (preferred).
  • Experience building automation and services that integrate with APIs, databases, and distributed systems (preferred).
  • Hands-on debugging skills using logs, metrics, and traces in a live-site production environment (preferred).
  • Experience using AI-based coding tools daily to accelerate development and debugging (preferred).
  • 6+ years technical experience working with large-scale cloud or distributed systems (preferred).

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