AdTech Platform Engineering Lead | Microsoft Careers

Microsoft

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San Francisco Bay area · New York City metropolitan area Posted 13 days ago $142,800–$274,800 / year
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At a glance

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TL;DR

The AdTech Platform Engineering Lead role within our AdTech and Marketing Technology organization requires a senior leader to manage and develop a high-performing engineering team while also taking on hands-on technical responsibilities. This player-coach position involves translating business requirements into a clear platform roadmap, ensuring delivery speed aligns with long-term health through sound architecture and disciplined execution. The ideal candidate will have deep expertise in modern web platforms, including cloud services, CI/CD pipelines, observability tools, edge computing, and performance optimization. They must also enforce platform standards, manage API governance, ensure operational excellence, and maintain compliance with privacy regulations. Key technologies include Azure ecosystem services such as App Service, AKS, Front Door, API Management, Key Vault, and Monitor/Application Insights, making this role critical for managing business-critical systems at scale.

Skills

Azure Kubernetes CI/CD Docker Prometheus Grafana Python JavaScript PostgreSQL Redis AWS Google Cloud Platform Terraform Git GitHub Jenkins Ansible Nginx OAuth OpenAPI GraphQL REST JSON

What you'll do

  • Lead and mentor a team of platform engineers to deliver high-quality web platform capabilities.
  • Translate business requirements into technical delivery plans for shared web platform capabilities.
  • Design and implement complex components of the web platform architecture, ensuring reliability and security.
  • Define and enforce standards for service templates, logging, metrics, configuration, and release practices.
  • Build observability tools and manage on-call readiness for critical web platform services.

What we're looking for

  • 4+ years of people management experience in hiring, coaching, and team development.
  • 8+ years of software engineering experience with a focus on platform engineering or SRE for large-scale production web services.
  • 5+ years of translating business needs into technical architecture and delivery plans.
  • 4+ years of expertise in security, privacy, and compliant data handling for customer-facing platforms.
  • 5+ years of experience with Azure ecosystem services or equivalent cloud technologies.

Market check

Salary context

This $142,800–$274,800 range sits above 64% of similar postings on FindRole.

Peer median band

$144,600–$230,250

Median floor and ceiling across peers.

Typical midpoint (25–75%)

$173,700–$217,518

Middle half of comparable postings.

Based on 240 comparable postings.

* 240 is the maximum number of comparable postings sampled.

Employer

About Microsoft

Microsoft Corporation is a global technology leader producing software, hardware, and cloud services including Windows, Office 365, Azure cloud platform, Xbox gaming, and Surface devices. Industry: Software & Cloud Computing

Microsoft currently has 451 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $119,800–$234,700 across 417 roles with salary data.

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