Atlanta, United States; Mountain View, United States; New York, US; Redmond, United States
Full job description
Adtech Platform Engineering Lead role responsible for leading a team designing, building, and operating web platform capabilities for high traffic marketing experiences. Role includes managing and developing an engineering team, providing technical authority on platform architecture, shared services, reliability, security, and operational excellence. Responsibilities include team leadership, translating business requirements into technical plans, hands-on technical ownership of platform lifecycle, defining platform standards and governance, ensuring reliability and observability, managing privacy and compliance, and cross-functional leadership. Required qualifications include Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field with 6+ years engineering experience coding in C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python or equivalent experience. Preferred qualifications include Master's degree or 8+ years experience, 4+ years people management, 8+ years software/platform engineering or SRE experience, 5+ years translating business needs into architecture and delivery plans, 4+ years security/privacy experience, and 5+ years experience with Azure ecosystem or equivalent cloud services. Salary range typical US: $142,800 - $274,800; San Francisco Bay Area and NYC: $188,000 - $304,200.
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Atlanta, United States; Mountain View, United States; New York, US; Redmond, United States
Full-time
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 Microsoft culture and values
Requirements
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in 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 C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python or Bachelor's Degree AND 12+ years technical engineering experience 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
Tech stack
CC++C#JavaJavaScriptPythonAzure App ServiceAzure AKSAzure Front DoorAzure API ManagementAzure Key VaultAzure MonitorAzure Application InsightsCI/CDObservabilityEdge/CDN
Benefits
Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation (details at https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay)
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