Senior Staff Software Engineer (Data) | Xbox Advertising

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Job Description:

Your Role Within the Kingdom

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 Software Engineer (Data) role on our Xbox Advertising Engineering team may be the right role for you!

We are seeking a Senior Staff Software Engineer (Data) to craft groundbreaking mobile advertising technologies to build the next generation of our Ads Platform.

We are an impactful team of problem solvers who 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!

Responsibilities

• Design and build Data Pipelines to collect, transform, store, analyze, explore and visualize.

• Craft and build cloud-based data lakes and data warehouses.

• Work with the product team to understand data sources, use cases and data models.

• Choose the right technology stack to align with those use cases with scalability.

• Collaborate with the other team members across different teams.

• Develop alert & monitoring systems and procedures for faster disaster recovery. 

• Build and contribute to data products with focus on data Quality and data Governance. 

Leadership and Communication

• Proven ability to lead and mentor engineers in a collaborative environment.

• Excellent at articulating complex technical concepts to diverse stakeholders.

• Experienced in driving technical strategy and making impactful decisions.

Skills to Create Thrills

• BA/BS degree in Computer Science, or a related technical field, plus 9+ years of relevant professional experience (13+ years total).

• Strong experience in Software Development in Java or Python.

• Working experience in building data warehouses and data lakes.

• Demonstrated ability working with relational databases such as MySQL, Postgres etc.

• Experience in NoSQL databases like Bigtable, Cassandra, HBase etc.

• Expert level SQL skills and database performance concepts.

• Extensive experience in relational and dimensional data modeling.

• Experience with developing extract-transform-load (ETL).

• Understanding of distributed computing frameworks like Apache Spark and Flink.

• Should be able to communicate and articulate their thought process optimally with team members.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience building data warehouse, data lake and data pipeline using Google Cloud Platform (GCP).

• Experience with large scale distributed systems with large datasets.

• Experience in distributed computing framework – Hadoop, Spark, Flink or Storm. 

• Experience with messaging systems like Kafka and RabbitMQ.

• Knowledge of advertising platforms.

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 accommodationrequests@activisionblizzard.com. 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.

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.

Rewards

We provide a suite of benefits that promote physical, emotional and financial well-being for ‘Every World’ - we’ve got our employees covered!  Subject to eligibility requirements, the Company offers comprehensive benefits including:

• Medical, dental, vision, health savings account or health reimbursement account, healthcare spending accounts, dependent care spending accounts, life and AD&D insurance, disability insurance;
• 401(k) with Company match, tuition reimbursement, charitable donation matching;
• Paid holidays and vacation, paid sick time, floating holidays, compassion and bereavement leaves, parental leave;
• Mental health & wellbeing programs, fitness programs, free and discounted games, and a variety of other voluntary benefit programs like supplemental life & disability, legal service, ID protection, rental insurance, and others;
• If the Company requires that you move geographic locations for the job, then you may also be eligible for relocation assistance.

Eligibility to participate in these benefits may vary for part time and temporary full-time employees and interns with the Company.  You can learn more by visiting https://www.benefitsforeveryworld.com/.

In the U.S., the standard base pay range for this role is $146,000.00 - $270,004.00 Annual. These values reflect the expected base pay range of new hires across all U.S. locations. Ultimately, your specific range and offer will be based on several factors, including relevant experience, performance, and work location. Your Talent Professional can share this role’s range details for your local geography during the hiring process. In addition to a competitive base pay, employees in this role may be eligible for incentive compensation. Incentive compensation is not guaranteed. While we strive to provide competitive offers to successful candidates, new hire compensation is negotiable.