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The Ads Billing team is hiring experienced engineers to join agile and diverse engineering teams in Micro Services, Platform Development and AI powered tools/agents/MCPs.\nAs a Senior Software Engineer in Ads Billing team, you will work closely with PM to address worldwide advertiser's voices, implement services with global access, collect and protect Bing Ads revenue for Microsoft. This opportunity will allow you to learn and develop deep business acumen in digital ads area, learn/explore/innovate/build cutting edge AI knowledges/techs/tools to serve our systems and end customers, sharpen your system developing skills, accelerate your career growth.\nMicrosoft’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.\nResponsibilities\nCollaborates with PMs to identify and determine advertisers' requirements for multiple billing scenarios revenue recognition, budget control, credit enforcement, invoicing, financial reporting and so on, own and drive design/implement/ship features according to requirement and timeline.\nDrives identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for product, application, service and platform.\nCreates, implements, optimizes, debugs, refactors, and reuses code to establish and improve performance and maintainability, effectiveness, and return on investment (ROI).\nLeverages subject-matter expertise of product features and partners with stakeholders to drive a workgroup's project plans, release plans, and work items.Acts as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) and work with team members by developing and following the playbook, working on call to monitor system/product/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions, alerting stakeholders about status and initiates actions to restore system/product/service for simple and complex problems when appropriate.\n\nSet a high technical and quality bar for agentic systems and developer-facing tooling. \nDesign and ship performant, reliable terminal experiences that developers depend on for daily work.\nUse data, benchmarks, and direct user feedback to guide iteration and investmentProactively seeks new knowledge and adapts to new trends, technical solutions, and patterns that will improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of Billing system while also driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale.\n\nQualifications\nRequired Qualifications:\nBachelor'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\no OR equivalent experience.\nOther Requirements:\nAbility 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:\nMicrosoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.\nPreferred Qualifications:\nMaster's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 5+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python\no OR Bachelor'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\no OR equivalent experience.\nHands-on experience building and operating AI agent/MCP in production, with direct ownership over quality, reliability, and iteration.\nGood experience building and shipping customer-facing developer interfaces/products, with depth across platform/foundation systems and user-facing experiences.\nSolid product mindset with a track record of owning ambiguous problem spaces and driving them to high-quality outcomes.\nSolid engineering fundamentals, including systems design, performance, and debugging in complex production environments.\nExperience designing, running, and optimizing evaluations for platforms, including tools, prompts, and agent loops.\nThis position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.\nMicrosoft is an equal opportunity employer. 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