The Monetize Platform is a platform to provide an open, transparent marketplace and powerful enterprise technology enabling marketers to connect and engage consumers on thousands of high-quality websites and apps. It’s an advanced buy-side and sell-side advertising technology platform that enables buyers and sellers to access and trade premium inventory in a transparent and streamlined environment.
Microsoft’s Monetize RTP Team is hiring an experienced Senior Software Engineer to join Monetize RTP Team, specifically focused on building high performance, distributed C/C++ applications serving millions requests per second. As a Senior Software Engineer, you will Lead the cross-team engineering efforts to build business critical products for publishers and buyers on the Monetize platform. You will collaborate with a team of smart, passionate engineers. You will own significant areas of the Monetize real-time platforms and function as an architect of significant parts of the platform. You will participate in setting the roadmap and direction for your areas of responsibility.
Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.
Responsibilities:
Work with appropriate stakeholders to determine product and application requirements for a set of features.
Own significant areas of application logic and the platform, driving its requirements, development and evolution.
Work independently with multiple teams to drive projects to completion.
Create and implement code for a product, service, or feature, reusing code as applicable.
Contribute to efforts to break down larger work items into smaller work items and provide LOE
Act as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) working on-call to monitor system/product feature/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions and gains approval to restore system/product/service for simple problems.
Remain current in skills by investing time and effort into staying abreast of current developments that will improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while also driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale.
Qualifications:
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.
Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings: Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
Preferred Qualifications:
Master’s Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience.
5+ years of experience as a professional software developer.
Excellent and creative problem-solving abilities.
We will consider extensive experience with other languages as well, e.g., Rust, Go, etc.
Experience building high performance, multi-threaded, distributed systems and applications, preferably in a Linux environment.
Experience practicing advanced optimization techniques.
Solid fundamental understanding of generalized architecture patterns and service-oriented architecture (SOA)
Excellent Computer Science fundamentals with regards to data structures, algorithms, time complexity, etc.
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