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Principal Software Engineering Manager - Ads

Microsoft· Software Engineering
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About the role

Principal Software Engineering Manager to lead the engineering organization building Ads Quality systems at global scale for Microsoft Advertising across search, native, shopping, display, audience, and AI-powered advertising experiences.

Responsibilities

  • Own the engineering strategy and execution for Ads Quality systems across signal processing, entity systems, model execution, decisioning, feedback, and measurement.
  • Build scalable real-time, nearline, and offline systems supporting very large volumes and demanding reliability requirements.
  • Create the production infrastructure that allows new models and signals to move rapidly from experimentation into safe global deployment.
  • Partner with Applied Science on model integration, evaluation, experimentation, serving trade-offs, and productionization.
  • Build common engineering foundations for heterogeneous AI workloads including classifiers, multimodal models, LLMs, agents, and deterministic systems.
  • Develop feedback, observability, experimentation, and diagnostic systems that make quality problems easy to find and fast to fix.
  • Drive architectural simplification and prevent the quality stack from becoming a collection of bespoke pipelines and one-off services.
  • Lead and grow senior engineers, engineering managers, and technical leaders capable of independently owning complex areas.
  • Drive difficult programs across organizational boundaries and maintain a high bar for architecture, engineering quality, and production ownership.

Qualifications

  • 15+ years of software engineering experience, or equivalent technical depth.
  • Significant experience leading senior engineers, engineering managers, or large engineering organizations.
  • Strong technical depth in distributed systems, AI/ML infrastructure, decision systems, or large-scale data platforms.
  • Experience building production systems that operationalize machine-learning models at significant scale.
  • Strong judgment around latency, throughput, reliability, freshness, cost, observability, and operational safety.
  • Ability to challenge architecture, understand failure modes

Skills

Required:Software engineering leadershipDistributed systemsProduction ML systems
Last updated Oct 16, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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