Microsoft

Senior Software Engineer

Microsoft$119K — $234K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field plus 4+ years technical engineering experience in coding (Python, SQL, PowerShell, Terraform, or Bicep) or equivalent experience.
  • Preferred 5+ years in infrastructure, cloud, platform, DevOps, SRE, or data platform engineering, particularly with Azure.
  • Experience building secure environments for sensitive data, focusing on identity/access management and governance.
  • Familiarity with CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, automated provisioning, and observability.
  • Experience designing privacy-safe data collaboration solutions, including clean rooms and consent management.

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and operate the infrastructure for Microsoft's clean room ecosystem.
  • Develop scalable platform patterns for audience creation, identity matching, and measurement workflows.
  • Create reusable infrastructure components for secure data exchanges across partners and use cases.
  • Implement infrastructure supporting highly regulated environments for sensitive data initiatives.
  • Manage access controls, identity management, and monitoring capabilities for security compliance.
  • Enable secure infrastructure for identity resolution and partner data onboarding.
  • Establish monitoring, logging, and operational automation for reliability in clean room services.

Benefits

  • Work in a leading-edge technology environment focused on privacy and collaboration.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams and external partners to innovate clean room solutions.
  • Access to Microsoft’s resources and infrastructure, enhancing professional development opportunities.
  • Engagement in a culture that prioritizes security, compliance, and operational excellence.
Full Job Description
Overview

We are looking for an AdTech Clean Room Senior Software Engineer to join Microsoft's AdTech Engineering organization. This role will be responsible for designing, building, securing, and operating the infrastructure required to support Microsoft's next-generation clean room capabilities, including ACCR, privacy-safe audience activation, identity resolution, measurement, and partner data collaboration initiatives.

As Microsoft expands its investment in clean room technologies and privacy-safe marketing solutions, this engineer will play a critical role in establishing the foundational platform, security controls, data movement patterns, identity services, and operational frameworks required to support clean room workloads at scale. This role requires experience in cloud infrastructure, data platforms, security, privacy, and platform engineering to deliver highly secure, compliant, and scalable environments that enable collaboration between Microsoft and external partners while protecting sensitive customer and commercial data.

Responsibilities

Clean Room Platform Engineering

  • Design, build, and operate the infrastructure supporting Microsoft's clean room ecosystem and privacy-preserving data collaboration capabilities.


  • Develop scalable platform patterns for clean room data onboarding, audience creation, identity matching, measurement, and activation workflows.


  • Build reusable infrastructure components and secure data exchange mechanisms that support multiple partners, data providers, and clean room use cases.


Infrastructure, Security & Compliance

  • Implement infrastructure supporting ISO-certified and highly regulated environments required for sensitive audience and identity processing initiatives.


  • Design and manage access controls, network isolation, identity management, encryption, auditing, and monitoring capabilities.


  • Partner with Privacy, Security, and Compliance teams to ensure adherence to NGP, privacy-by-design, data governance, audit requirements, and support environment readiness activities, certifications, audits, and compliance reviews.


Identity & Data Enablement

  • Enable secure infrastructure for identity resolution, audience matching, consent management, opt-out processing, and partner data onboarding.


  • Build platform services supporting first-party, third-party, and partner data ingestion into clean room environments, including infrastructure requirements for commercial identity graph, audience activation, and clean room measurement capabilities.


Reliability & Operational Excellence

  • Develop observability, monitoring, logging, alerting, and operational automation for clean room services and data pipelines.


  • Define and maintain reliability, security, and operational readiness standards.


  • Automate deployment, environment provisioning, configuration management, and operational controls.


  • Lead root cause investigations and drive preventative improvements for critical platform services.


Platform Strategy & Architecture

  • Define infrastructure standards, architecture patterns, and engineering practices for clean room technologies.


  • Evaluate emerging clean room technologies, privacy-enhancing technologies (PETs), identity solutions, and secure collaboration frameworks.


  • Partner with Engineering, Marketing, Privacy, Security, Data Engineering, and external partners to develop scalable long-term clean room solutions.


Embody our culture and values.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

  • 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, Python, SQL, PowerShell, Terraform, or Bicep
    • OR equivalent experience.


Preferred Qualifications

  • 5+ years in infrastructure, cloud, platform, DevOps, SRE, or data platform engineering, including Azure and enterprise-scale systems.


  • Experience building secure environments for sensitive or regulated data, including identity and access management, security architecture, governance, auditing, and ISO, SOC, privacy, or regulatory controls.


  • Experience with CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, automated provisioning, observability, and platform operations.


  • Experience designing privacy-safe data collaboration solutions using clean rooms, privacy-enhancing technologies, confidential computing, identity resolution, consent management, audience matching, or measurement.


  • Experience with large-scale analytics platforms-such as Microsoft Fabric, Databricks, Spark, Azure Data Factory, Event Hubs, or Synapse-and AdTech or MarTech capabilities such as audience activation, identity graphs, CDPs, and measurement platforms.


Software Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $119,800 - $234,700 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $160,200 - $261,000 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:
https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

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Microsoft is an American multinational corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services. Microsoft’s devices and consumer (D&C) licensing segment licenses the Windows operating system and related software, Microsoft Office for consumers, and the Windows Phone operating system. The company’s computing and gaming hardware segment provides Xbox gaming and entertainment consoles and accessories, second-party and third-party video games, and Xbox Live subscriptions; surface devices and accessories; and Microsoft PC accessories. Its phone hardware segment offers Lumia smartphones and other non-Lumia phones. Its D&C segment provides Windows Store, Xbox Live transactions, and Windows phone store; search advertising; display advertising; Office 365 Home and Office 365 Personal; first-party video games; and other consumer products and services as well as operating retail stores. Microsoft’s commercial licensing segments license server products, including Windows Server, Microsoft SQL Server, Visual Studio, System Center, and related Client Access Licenses (CALs); Windows Embedded; Windows operating system; Microsoft Office for business, including Office, Exchange, SharePoint, Lync, and related CALs; Microsoft Dynamics business solutions; and Skype. Its commercial segment offers enterprise services, including premier support services and Microsoft consulting services; commercial cloud comprising Office 365 Commercial, other Microsoft Office online offerings, Dynamics CRM Online, and Microsoft Azure; and other commercial products and online services. The company markets and distributes its products through original equipment manufacturers, distributors, and resellers, as well as online.

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