Software Engineer II

Microsoft Monetize is an online advertising platform, where advertisers bid to display brief ads, service offers, product listings and videos to web and app users. Our data-enabled technology platform optimizes return on investment for both buyers and sellers, while maintaining a commitment to an open marketplace and empowering the open web globally.

The team is at the forefront of the open marketplace, managing the Prebid Server Premium product to power the open marketplace with hundreds of buyers running billions of auctions daily. we maintain the open source Prebid Server project. We also run other services integration to the real time platform.

The team leads the way in the open marketplace, overseeing the Prebid Server Premium product to support hundreds of buyers conducting billions of auctions each day. We manage the open source Prebid Server project and handle other service integrations with the real-time platform.

We are looking for a Software Engineer as an individual contributor to help drive innovation and scale the real-time advertising platform in the Monetize group at Microsoft Advertising. The role requires technical prowess to quickly learn a multitude of technologies. The , in Microsoft’s Hyderabad/Pune office, in close collaboration with the engineers around the globe across Microsoft's advertising stack and product teams.

As a Software Engineer, you will join an engineering team responsible for the architecture, development, administration, and maintenance of inventory management and quality platform. The platform is critical for our client success, and you'll play a key role in modernizing the platform to be able to handle constantly emerging quality challenges collaborating with other teams and team members.

Responsibilities

• Assess, recommend, and adopt relevant new technologies, tools, and processes from Microsoft and industry.
• Produce extensible and maintainable designs and code.
• Helping with the design and development of software, applications, and services.
• Testing and debugging software, applications, and services to keep it optimized.
• Follow and suggest good engineering practices to improve team productivity.
• Consider security, maintenance, scalability, and more when developing
• Coach and mentor peers and emerging members of the team while advocating for best practices.
• Being on team’s alert rotation
  
  

More About You

• You are passionate about a culture of learning and teaching. You love challenging yourself to constantly improve, and sharing your knowledge to empower others
• You like to take risks when looking for novel solutions to complex problems. If faced with roadblocks, you continue to reach higher to make greatness happen
• You care about solving big, systemic problems. You look beyond the surface to understand root causes so that you can build long-term solutions for the whole ecosystem
• You believe in not only serving customers but also empowering them by providing knowledge and tools
  
  

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science or related field preferred.
• 4+ years of experience developing software solutions with a strong understanding of software best practices
• Proficient in full-stack development both and back-end (API/Server) coding
• Hands-on experience with some of the technologies listed below and a willingness to adapt and learn new.
• Our tech stack includes
• Languages - C#, Go, Java, Python
• Databases - MySQL, Aerospike, Azure Cosmos DB
• OS – Linux, Windows Server
• Message Queue – Azure Event Hub, Kafka
• Container – Docker, Kubernetes, Service Fabric
• Other – CI/CD
• Strong organizational skills, attention to detail, and exceptional time management and task execution skills
  

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