Principal Backend Engineer — Ads Platform (Hybrid, SF)

xboxgaming; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 171,000 - 317,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision

401(k) with company match

Paid holidays & vacation

Job summary

Xbox Media is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to empower high-scale backend systems for advertising and translate business needs into technical requirements. You will lead architecture, drive critical technical decisions, and mentor engineers across teams.

The role emphasizes collaboration with product and engineering, with a focus on building reusable systems and scalable platforms for the Publisher Ads Platform. This is a hybrid role based in San Francisco.

Qualifications

• Experience designing and operating large-scale distributed systems.
• Ability to set technical direction for a broad domain and drive outcomes.
• Strong backend engineering depth: APIs, data modeling, reliability, production ops.

Responsibilities

• Own engineering outcomes for critical systems aligned to business priorities.
• Define long-term technical direction for broad domains with trade-offs.
• Lead architecture direction and ensure alignment across leadership and product groups.
• Mentor staff-level engineers and emerging technical leaders.
• Drive platform evolution and reusable systems across teams.

Skills

Distributed systems

Backend engineering

Go

GCP

Cloud Run

Leadership

Communication

Architecture decisions

Tools

GCP

Cloud Run

GKE

Job description

Xbox Media is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to empower high-scale backend systems for advertising and translate business needs into technical requirements. You will lead architecture, drive critical technical decisions, and mentor engineers across teams.

The role emphasizes collaboration with product and engineering, with a focus on building reusable systems and scalable platforms for the Publisher Ads Platform. This is a hybrid role based in San Francisco.