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Senior Software Engineer

United States, Washington, Redmond💼 Full-time🗓 2026-07-21 → 2026-07-31

Core

Design, implement, and maintain high-efficiency, scalable distributed systems and online serving features for the BingAds business.

Role type

Senior Software Engineer (Distributed Systems & Big Data)

Builds

Online ad serving features, distributed system infrastructure, and automation tools for BingAds

Domain

Advertising technology, Distributed Systems, Big Data

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | infrastructure

Required skills

System design, distributed system architecture, big data processing, performance profiling, capacity planning, automation development, on-call incident management, code quality assurance

Preferred skills

Azure Machine Learning, online system design qualification

Technologies

Spark, Hadoop, HDFS, Kafka, Flink, Scala, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Python

Responsibilities

Create system designs for new feature requirements, implement features with high reliability and maintainability, monitor live services and resolve incidents within SLA, profile distributed system performance and address capacity bottlenecks, contribute to production automation and deployment pipelines

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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## About the role - Work with BingAds stakeholders to determine requirements for new features to drive up Ads business. - Create system design for feature requirements. - Assure system meets security and compliance requirements and expectations. - Creates a clear and articulated plan for testing and assuring quality solutions. - Implement the features with high efficiency, extensibility, diagnosability, reliability, and maintainability with few defects. - Maintain operations of live service as issues arise on a rotational, on-call basis. - Identifies solutions and mitigations to simple and complex issues and escalates as necessary. - Acts as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) working on call to monitor system/product feature/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions. - Responds within Service Level Agreement (SLA) timeframe. - Escalate issues to appropriate owners. - Build knowledge, share new ideas, and share pinpoints of engineering tool gaps to improve software developer tools to support other programs, tools, and applications to create, debug, and maintain code for product features. - Contribute to the development of automation within production and deployment of a product feature. - Profile and analyze distributed system performance and capacity bottlenecks. - Propose and implement solutions to improve system latency and capacity to meet BingAds online serving requirements. ## Requirements - 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. - 4+ years' experience in Distributed Systems and Big Data Technologies such as Spark, Hadoop, HDFS, Kafka, Flink, Scala. - Azure Machine learning and online system design, implementation and qualification.
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