The Adtech Platform Engineering Lead will oversee a team responsible for designing, building, and operating web platform capabilities that enhance high traffic marketing experiences at Microsoft. This role combines technical leadership with hands-on involvement in platform architecture and operational excellence. The ideal candidate will possess strong people management skills and deep technical expertise in modern web platforms. The position requires translating business needs into a clear technical roadmap while ensuring the reliability and security of critical systems.

• 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 or equivalent cloud services.

• 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, 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.

• Employees at Microsoft are often offered comprehensive, “world-class” benefits—including health and mental-wellness programs, competitive pay with bonuses and stock awards, and retirement/savings options. Time-off and flexibility are common, with generous vacation and holidays, parental and caregiver leave, and flexible work schedules, alongside learning support, employee resource groups, product discounts, and matching-gifts/volunteering programs. Specific benefits can vary by region.