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 leadership and technical expertise, requiring the individual to manage a high-performing engineering team while also being hands-on with platform architecture and operational excellence. The position demands a balance between meeting business needs and ensuring technical execution, with a focus on privacy-sensitive systems at scale. The ideal candidate will possess strong people leadership skills and deep knowledge of modern web platforms.

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Serve as the primary technical point of accountability across Web engineering, Marketing Measurement, Analytics, and Platform teams.

• 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.