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It supports search, display, native, video, Connected TV, shopping, and AI-driven Advertising campaigns across Microsoft properties-including Bing, MSN, Outlook, Edge, Microsoft 365, and gaming-as well as partner networks.\nWe’re seeking an innovative Service Engineer IIto support the Microsoft Advertising Platform. The ideal candidate combines strong technical skills and customer empathy with a passion for building automation and full-stack tools. As a subject matter expert, they will partner across Product, Engineering, and Support, guide global teams, own service KPIs, troubleshoot complex issues, and turncustomer evidence into product improvements that prevent repeat escalations and strengthen reliability, quality, and customer outcomes.\nSuccess is measured by timely issue resolution, sustained KPI improvement, and convertingproduct gaps and friction pointsinto actionableproduct plans to reduce repeat escalations.\nIn alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day. Microsoft’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.\nAI Experiences employees who live within a 50-mile commute of a designated Microsoft Hub in the U.S. are expected to work from the office at least four days per week. This expectation is subject to local law and may vary by jurisdiction.\nResponsibilities\nPerform deep technical investigations to solve complex reliability, performance, and data-quality issues across Microsoft Advertising platform, APIs, and customer workflows.\n\nDesign, build, and own AI-driven automation (scripts, services, and internal web tools) on an intelligent platform to modernize support workflows, with the goal of reducing time-to-diagnose, eliminating manual work, and improving operational efficiency at scale.\n\nWrite production-quality code; implement fixes, create monitoring/alerting improvements, and contribute to shared libraries and tooling via standard code review and CI/CD practices.\n\nTurn customer, escalation, and incident evidence into product and engineering action plans that address root causes, improve supportability, and reduce recurring issues.\n\nCreate and maintain automated test coverage (unit/integration/end-to-end) for key workflows; participate in bug bashes and release readiness activities.\n\nCreate durable operational improvements through monitoring, documentation, playbooks, training, self-service experiences, and post-incident follow-through.\n\nRepresent Support in product pilots, release-readiness reviews, bug bashes, and launches; advocate for mitigation, guardrails, or delay when quality or customer risk is material.\n\nDesign and own agentic, AI-assisted, and automation solutions that accelerate diagnosis, eliminate repetitive work, prevent recurring escalations, and improve efficiency at scale.\n\nQualifications\nRequired Qualifications:\nBachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Data Science, Cybersecurity, or related field experience AND 2+ years technical experience in software engineering, network engineering, service engineering, systems engineering, or industrial controls.\n\nPreferred qualifications:\nSolid coding skills in at least one general-purpose language (C#, Java, Python, or TypeScript/JavaScript), including writing maintainable, testable code. \nExperience building automation and/or services that integrate with APIs, databases, and distributed systems.\nHands-on debugging skills (logs, metrics, traces) and comfort working in a live-site/production environment.\nExperience using AI-based coding tools daily (e.g., GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT, or similar) to accelerate development and debugging, while validating correctness, security, and performance.\nDomain knowledge or experience in Organic & Paid Search, as well as Display, Native, and Video advertising. \nProficiency in developing tools and automation in C# to improve operational efficiency.\nExperience with customer-facing tier 3 technical support or within a software development organization.\n6+ years technical experience working with large-scale cloud or distributed systems.\nKnowledge and experience in two or more of the following areas: data mining, web mining, machine learning, statistics, business intelligence/customer intelligence, user modeling, information retrieval, databases, data warehousing, data processing (ETL), e-metrics /measurement. \nTech stack (examples; varies by project)Languages : C#, Python, TypeScript/JavaScript.\nWeb & APIs: REST, authentication/authorization basics, internal web tools.\nData: SQL, Kusto (KQL) or similar query languages.\nCloud & DevOps: Azure, GitHub/Azure DevOps, CI/CD pipelines.\nObservability: logging/metrics/tracing and alerting.\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.\n\nService Engineering IC3 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $102,100 - $202,200 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $133,800 - $219,200 per year.\nCertain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:\nhttps://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay\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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