Software Engineer 2

Company: Microsoft
Location: Bellevue
Posted on: January 12, 2021

Job Description:

Our team focuses on understanding, predicting, and incentivizing how the advertisers and users interact with our marketplace through algorithm development, optimization, and experimental analysis of advertiser strategies and auction mechanisms. Engineers on our team work on building systems and platforms that helps to enhance our understanding of the marketplace and design solutions and experiments to build on these understandings, contributing to the overall growth of our business. We help derive insights that benefits teams within the organization build better solutions, products, and features that delight our end users. The team also works on new products and features that impact our hundreds of millions of customers WW. The team leverages state of the art machine learning and statistical modeling techniques to make these new products/features feasible, which requires a strong engineering platform as its core foundations.Responsibilities To be successful in this role the successful candidate will need to demonstrate strong learn and be curious attitude. The team is diverse with statisticians, ML scientists and engineers. The successful candidate should be able to bring in diverse perspective from their past experience and skill. The team works on problems that are often ambiguous, and hence strong problem solving skills will be a great qualification. Able to challenge the status quo and champion alternative perspectives will be much celebrate.QualificationsBS in Computer Science or related field with at least 5 years of SDE experience, OR MS degree in Computer Science with at least 2 years of experience 2 years of C#, Java, C++, Python, R or equivalent experience Strong engineering, mathematical and/or analytical skillsPast background in analytics will be a plus. Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.Benefits and PerksIndustry leading healthcareSavings and investmentsGiving programsEducational resourcesMaternity and paternity leaveOpportunities to network and connectDiscounts on products and servicesGenerous time awayJob SummaryJob number: 940564Date posted : 2020-12-01Travel: 0-25%Profession: EngineeringRole type: Individual ContributorEmployment type: Full-TimeExperience: Experienced professionals

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