The engineering manager will lead a team of Site Reliability Engineers focused on ensuring the availability, resiliency, and operational excellence of large-scale ad serving systems across hybrid on-premises and Azure environments. This role involves guiding the design and operation of observability, automation, incident response, and failover capabilities. The manager will drive continuous improvement through blameless postmortems and infrastructure-as-code practices while collaborating with machine learning, platform, and engineering teams to enhance developer experience. The position requires a strong technical background and a commitment to fostering a culture of inclusion and accountability.

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience.
• Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements.
• 4+ years managing Linux and open source systems.
• 4+ years people management experience.
• 6+ years experience in monitoring & observability tools (Grafana, Datadog, OpenTelemetry, etc.).
• Experience migrating complex systems from on-prem to public cloud.
• Experience using Infrastructure-as-code (e.g. Terraform, Bicep) to manage complex systems.
• Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines.
• Solid knowledge of distributed systems, networking, and storage.

• Lead a team of experienced SREs to ensure uptime, resiliency, and fault tolerance of hybrid on-prem and Azure ad serving systems.
• Design and help maintain monitoring, alerting, and logging systems to provide real-time visibility into platform performance.
• Lead building of automation for deployments, incident response, scaling, and failover in hybrid cloud/on-prem environments.
• Lead on-call rotations, troubleshoot production issues, conduct blameless postmortems, and drive continuous improvements.
• Ensure data privacy, compliance, and secure operations across serving environments.
• Partner with ML engineers and platform teams to improve developer experience and accelerate research-to-production workflows.

• 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.