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About the Role

We are seeking an Adtech Platform Engineering Lead to design, build, and operate web platform capabilities for high-traffic marketing experiences. This player-coach role involves managing and developing an engineering team while remaining hands-on as the technical authority for platform architecture, reliability, security, and operational excellence. The role translates evolving marketing and product requirements into a platform roadmap, requiring strong people leadership, deep technical expertise in modern web platforms, and experience operating business-critical, privacy-sensitive systems at scale.

Responsibilities

Lead, mentor, and grow a team of platform engineers, setting clear expectations for ownership, quality, security, and operational excellence.
Translate business and product requirements into a prioritized technical delivery plan, roadmap, and backlog for shared web platform capabilities.
Balance delivery speed with long-term platform health through clear architectural direction, sound engineering practices, and disciplined execution.
Act as the hands-on technical authority for web platform architecture; design, review, and directly implement complex or high-risk components as needed.
Own the end-to-end web platform lifecycle, from developer experience and build/release pipelines through runtime infrastructure, traffic management, and production operations.
Define and enforce platform standards for service templates, logging/metrics, configuration, dependency management, and release practices.
Establish and manage service contracts, versioning, and change management processes with consuming product teams.
Ensure consistent patterns for authentication/authorization, identity propagation, and secure defaults across platform components.
Define and own availability, latency, and reliability SLOs/SLAs for critical web platform services.
Build and operate observability (metrics, logs, traces), alerting, dashboards, and automated runbooks.
Own on-call readiness, incident response, root cause analysis, and preventative remediation for business-critical services.
Partner with privacy, legal, and security teams to ensure privacy by design, consent handling, data minimization, and compliant data usage.
Maintain audit-ready documentation including data lineage, classifications, access controls, and operational controls.
Serve as the primary technical point of accountability across Web engineering, Marketing Measurement, Analytics, and Platform teams.
Communicate clearly with technical and business stakeholders on tradeoffs, risks, and delivery progress.
Embody our culture and values.

Requirements

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience.
Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 12+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience.
4+ years people management experience, including hiring, coaching, performance management, and team development.
8+ years of experience in software engineering, platform engineering, or SRE, owning large-scale production web services.
5+ years of experience translating business and product needs into technical architecture and executable delivery plans.
4+ years of experience in security, privacy, and compliant data handling for customer-facing web platforms.
5+ years of experience with the Azure ecosystem (App Service, AKS, Front Door, API Management, Key Vault, Monitor/Application Insights) or equivalent cloud services.

Skills

Modern web platforms
Cloud hosted services
CI/CD
Observability
Edge/CDN
Performance
Coding in C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
Software engineering
Platform engineering
SRE
Azure ecosystem (App Service, AKS, Front Door, API Management, Key Vault, Monitor/Application Insights) or equivalent cloud services

Location

U.S.

Work Type

Full-time

Experience Level

Lead
M5

Education Level

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field
Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field

Salary/Compensations

USD $142,800 - $274,800 per year (U.S. typical base pay range)
USD $188,000 - $304,200 per year (San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area)

Benefits

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.

About the Company

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.

Equal Opportunity

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances.
If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.