Software Development Engineer, Senior - Ads - 834952

Job Category: Software Engineering: Development
Location: Bellevue, WA, US
Job ID: 834952-109744
Division: Online Services Division

Online Advertising is one of the fastest growing businesses on the Internet today, with $40 billion of a $600 billion advertising market already online. Microsoft is innovating rapidly to grow its share of this market by providing the advertising industry with a world-class online advertising platform and service. The Microsoft Ads Research & Development team is one of the most strategic and growing teams at Microsoft.
As part of a software company with powerful innovations and part media company with global properties, at Microsoft Ads we bring both our technical and creative side to the table. Through incisive analytics, we know who cares - both when and where. We understand how to get in front of the right people at the strongest point of influence. Above all, we love data and excel at interpreting it for our partners. Collecting valuable information from every campaign and mining it for insights.

The vision of the Display Advertising team at Microsoft is Advertising people want on platforms they love . The "Vault Team" within Display Advertising is a nascent startup team. We are hiring software engineers that will help us achieve this vision by going broad across the work product of the organization.

Be aware that due to the confidential nature of our work, few details of our project can be revealed until you become a member of this team. Our project will have a positive impact across Microsoft Windows Apps, XBOX, Skype, Windows Phone, MSN and others.

Are you excited about rapid, iterative development cycles, releasing software every month? Do you want to get experience building platform that powers live services running at scale on massive data? Does working in a small, agile team with ability to have an impact across multiple division appeal to you? If you answered yes to any of these questions, this is the position for you.

Roles & Responsibilities:
We are looking for a strong, motivated, result-oriented developer to help drive the design a scalable platform and app ecosystems that spans across multiple divisions.

Skills & Qualificactions:
Technical skills must include C#, .NET, ASP.NET, T-SQL, WCF, XML, MVC. Experience building high performance and scalable systems, strong multithreaded design and debugging skills are highly desirable. Expertise with scale, partitioning, Windows Azure, various Bing infrastructure components is a huge plus!

Experience Required:
7+ years of software development experience in service-oriented architectures, scalable, high throughput systems
-Experience working in high paced startup/agile environment
-Self-starter and be able to work without much direction through ambiguity
- Passion for quality and success
- Outstanding analytical and problem solving skills
- Drive for solving hard problems and getting things done
- BS or MS in Computer Science or equivalent

Microsoft is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE) and strongly supports diversity in the work place.

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