**Overview**

Our team is at the forefront of transforming digital advertising through intelligent automation and large-scale optimization. We design and build the bidding platform that powers real-time ad auctions across Microsoft’s marketplaces - leveraging cutting-edge AI, machine learning, and large-scale distributed systems to bid on behalf of millions of advertisers.

Our systems process billions of auction events daily, optimizing bids in milliseconds to maximize performance and return on ad spend. Engineers and scientists work hand-in-hand, blending algorithmic innovation, reinforcement learning, and large-scale data pipelines to create the intelligence that drives Microsoft Advertising’s success.

We’re looking for a Principal Software Engineer who thrives at the intersection of AI systems, real-time decision-making, and scalable cloud infrastructure. You’ll help shape the next generation of our agentic bidding platform - one that learns, adapts, and op...