Service Engineer II - Microsoft Advertising

Microsoft Advertising is Microsoft's digital advertising business and platform, helping advertisers connect with customers across search, browsing, shopping, gaming, and AI-powered experiences. 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.

We’re looking for an innovative Service Engineer II who enjoys building automation and full-stack tools while partnering closely with product engineering to improve reliability, quality, and customer experience on the Microsoft Advertising platform.

As a Service Engineer II, you will blend deep technical investigation with hands-on software development, often leveraging the latest AI-assisted development tools. You’ll build and maintain automation tools, diagnose complex issues across services and APIs, and partner with engineering teams to land fixes in production. The right candidate enjoys debugging distributed systems, writing clean, testable code, and iterating quickly based on data and customer impact.

In 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.

Starting January 26, 2026, Microsoft AI Experiences employees who live within a 50- mile commute of a designated Microsoft office in the U.S. or 25-mile commute of a non-U.S., country-specific location 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.

Responsibilities

• Perform deep technical investigations to solve complex reliability, performance, and data-quality issues across Microsoft Advertising platform, APIs, and customer workflows.

• Design, 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.