AdTech Platform Engineering Lead

What you'll do

• 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 languages including 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 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

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Benefits