Senior Staff Backend Engineer | Xbox Advertising

Senior Staff Backend Engineer Technology & Development Your role within Xbox Advertising Do you want to build amazing high scale backend systems for Advertising using the latest technologies? Are you an excellent communicator who enjoys working with people from several different business units? Can you translate business needs into technical requirements and implementation? If you answered yes, then our Senior Staff Backend Engineer role on our ads engineering team may be the right role for you! We are an impactful team of problem solvers that are constantly reviewing how and why we do things and learning from each other. We are experimental, trying out new tech and ideas and willing to do things differently to drive the entire industry forward. We are sociable and fun, and we like to hang out together. We are passionate, some might even say quirky, and while we love what we do, our lives are about more than work. We love games and are obsessed with creating the best player experience! About Xbox Advertising Xbox Advertising builds the player-first, full-stack monetization technology that powers advertising across Xbox surfaces and ad-supported gameplay. We enable meaningful player engagement, publisher success, and platform growth by delivering trusted, high-quality ad experiences at global scale. Backed by Xbox and Microsoft, our platform blends deep gaming insights, privacy-forward data, and world-class engineering to make Xbox Ads the most effective and trusted ad platform in gaming. We are seeking a Senior Staff Backend Engineer in our Ads Engineering team, empowering groundbreaking advertising technologies to create the next generation of our Publisher Ads Platform. Responsibilities Design and develop highly scalable, available and reliable Ads & Monetization platform that handles billions of requests per day Partner with architects, senior engineers and cross team members to build high volume backend systems Take complete ownership and manage individual projects priorities, deadlines and deliverables with your technical expertise Work with the product team to understand the business needs and translate them into development/design tasks Provide technical directions and mentorship to other engineers Be a role model in engineering best practices and design/coding standards for delivering high quality products Skills to Create Thrills Demonstrated ability leading the development of highly performing services in Java Experience in designing overall architecture and design for large-scale distributed systems Experience with NoSQL systems e.g., Bigtable, Cassandra, Elastic Expert knowledge in System Design, Schema & Data Modeling and Performance Analysis Experience working with Multi-threading, Asynchronous, Streaming/Messaging technologies (e.g. Kafka, RabitMQ) Great interpersonal skills and a consistent record to work in a collaborative team environment BA/BS degree in Computer Science, similar technical field of study or equivalent practical experience Key Attributes Experience working in a cloud-based environment with Google Cloud Platform or AWS Knowledge and experience in CI/CD, test automation, Jenkins, Gradle, and related technologies Experience with open source technologies like Docker, Kubernetes, Google BigQuery Passionate about usability, maintainability and quality, building for the long term Bonus Points Experience with distributed computing frameworks (Apache Spark, Flink) Experience with AdTech platforms preferred like Ads Monetization, Serving, Demand Side Platform, etc. We love hearing from anyone who is enthusiastic about changing the games industry. Not sure you meet all qualifications? Let us decide! Research shows that women, veterans, and members of other under-represented groups tend to not apply to jobs when they think they may not meet every qualification, when, in fact, they often do! We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment and strongly encourage you to apply. We are committed to working with and providing reasonable assistance to individuals with physical and mental disabilities. If you are a disabled individual requiring an accommodation to apply for an open position, please email your request to . General employment questions cannot be accepted or processed here. Thank you for your interest. We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status, among other characteristics.

Created: 2026-03-04