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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.\nAs 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.\nMicrosoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees, we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day, we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.\nResponsibilities\nClean Room Platform Engineering\nDesign, build, and operate the infrastructure supporting Microsoft's clean room ecosystem and privacy-preserving data collaboration capabilities.\n\nDevelop scalable platform patterns for clean room data onboarding, audience creation, identity matching, measurement, and activation workflows.\n\nBuild reusable infrastructure components and secure data exchange mechanisms that support multiple partners, data providers, and clean room use cases.\n\nInfrastructure, Security & Compliance\nImplement infrastructure supporting ISO-certified and highly regulated environments required for sensitive audience and identity processing initiatives.\n\nDesign and manage access controls, network isolation, identity management, encryption, auditing, and monitoring capabilities.\n\nPartner 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.\n\nIdentity & Data Enablement\nEnable secure infrastructure for identity resolution, audience matching, consent management, opt-out processing, and partner data onboarding.\n\nBuild 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.\n\nReliability & Operational Excellence\nDevelop observability, monitoring, logging, alerting, and operational automation for clean room services and data pipelines.\n\nDefine and maintain reliability, security, and operational readiness standards.\n\nAutomate deployment, environment provisioning, configuration management, and operational controls.\n\nLead root cause investigations and drive preventative improvements for critical platform services.\n\nPlatform Strategy & Architecture\nDefine infrastructure standards, architecture patterns, and engineering practices for clean room technologies.\n\nEvaluate emerging clean room technologies, privacy-enhancing technologies (PETs), identity solutions, and secure collaboration frameworks.\n\nPartner with Engineering, Marketing, Privacy, Security, Data Engineering, and external partners to develop scalable long-term clean room solutions.\n\nEmbody our culture and values.\nQualifications\nRequired Qualifications\nMaster's Degree in Computer Science, Math, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field AND 3+ years experience in business analytics, data science, software development, data modeling, or data engineering\nOR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Math, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field AND 4+ years experience in business analytics, data science, software development, data modeling, or data engineering\n\nOR equivalent experience.\n\nPreferred Qualifications\n5+ years in infrastructure, cloud, platform, DevOps, SRE, or data platform engineering, including Azure and enterprise-scale systems.\n\nExperience building secure environments for sensitive or regulated data, including identity and access management, security architecture, governance, auditing, and ISO, SOC, privacy, or regulatory controls.\n\nExperience with CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, automated provisioning, observability, and platform operations.\n\nExperience designing privacy-safe data collaboration solutions using clean rooms, privacy-enhancing technologies, confidential computing, identity resolution, consent management, audience matching, or measurement.\n\nExperience 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.\n\nData 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.\nCertain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:\nhttps://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay\nThis position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.\nMicrosoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. 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