The Streaming and Captioning Engineering Lead will develop and maintain the live streaming and captioning platform for Microsoft's flagship events, ensuring a seamless experience for global audiences. This hands-on technical leadership role requires expertise in media, scale, and accessibility. The lead will mentor engineers, set technical direction, and ensure the reliability of the streaming services. A strong focus on building scalable and accessible systems is essential.

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience.
• Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience.
• Experience building large-scale live-event, media, or over-the-top (OTT) streaming platforms for a global audience.
• Familiarity with cloud media services, DRM, and low-latency streaming approaches.
• Experience with real-time speech-to-text, machine translation, or localization pipelines.
• A record of technical leadership, mentorship, and influence across teams and disciplines.
• Proficiency in streaming technologies and protocols, including live streaming, adaptive bitrate, and formats such as HLS and MPEG-DASH.
• Hands-on experience with video encoding and transcoding, codecs, and media processing pipelines.
• Experience with captioning and caption translation, including real-time caption workflows and standard caption formats.
• Experience delivering content at scale through CDNs, with a focus on low latency, high availability, and cost efficiency.
• Experience developing accessible video players, applying accessibility standards such as WCAG across web and device platforms.

• Develop and maintain the live streaming and captioning platform that powers Microsoft's flagship events.
• Own the video-on-demand hosting platform end to end, including ingest, encoding, storage, and playback.
• Build and evolve accessible, high-performance video players across web and device targets.
• Engineer the captioning pipeline, including real-time caption generation and caption translation into multiple languages.
• Design video encoding and adaptive-bitrate delivery, and tune content delivery through CDNs.
• Own reliability end to end by setting availability and quality targets and leading live-event monitoring.
• Partner with product managers, event producers, accessibility specialists, and vendors to create resilient technical solutions.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship, guiding architecture and growing the skills of the engineering team.

• 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.