Senior Software Engineer

Microsoft is at the forefront of transforming digital advertising through intelligent automation and large-scale optimization. They are seeking a Principal Software Engineer to help shape their agentic bidding platform, which leverages AI and machine learning to optimize ad auctions and enhance advertiser ROI.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with data scientists, ML engineers, and product teams to define requirements for agentic AI-driven bidding capabilities that observe, reason, and adapt autonomously
• Architect and implement the next-generation agentic bidding platform, enabling AI agents to monitor marketplace signals, interpret advertiser and user behavior, and continuously optimize bidding strategies
• Build large-scale data validation and quality frameworks to ensure correctness, consistency, and reliability across all auction-critical signals feeding the AI agents
• Act as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI): drive operational excellence, incident management, on-call readiness, and high-availability practices for mission-critical bidding services
• Develop experimentation and simulation frameworks to validate agent behavior and optimize policies before deployment in live auctions
• Proactively adopt new patterns, technologies, and engineering practices to improve availability, efficiency, performance, and scalability across the bidding stack
• Set technical direction, mentor engineers, and foster a culture of high-quality execution, innovation, and accountability
• Explore and invest in emerging AI techniques - multi-agent systems, adaptive optimization - to enhance the autonomy, intelligence, and impact of the bidding platform