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Principal Software Engineering Manager, AI Experiences

Microsoft· Software Engineering
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New York, NY$142.8k - $274.8kFull-timePosted 4d ago

About the role

Lead Infrastructure, Operations and Shared Tech for Microsoft's Monetize real-time platform, guiding performance-sensitive C/C++ services, shared-runtime modernization, distributed-cache migrations, and model-backed capabilities in a hybrid on-prem/Azure environment. Owns roadmap, delivery, and cross-team collaboration to deliver reliable shared capabilities for real-time advertising at scale.

Responsibilities

  • Lead and develop engineers. Hire, coach, and grow a team spanning infrastructure, operations, and shared-platform software. Establish clear expectations, support career development, and foster an inclusive culture of technical excellence and accountability.
  • Own the team’s roadmap and delivery. Translate platform and product needs into priorities, architectural plans, and measurable outcomes. Balance feature delivery with reliability, security, technical debt, infrastructure cost, and operational sustainability.
  • Guide shared-platform architecture. Lead the design and evolution of reusable services, libraries, interfaces, and runtime components used across real-time applications. Establish clear ownership boundaries and maintain compatibility as systems evolve.
  • Advance low-latency software engineering. Guide improvements in concurrency, asynchronous execution, memory safety, data structures, and resource efficiency for high-throughput Linux services. Maintain a high bar for design reviews, code quality, and automated testing.
  • Modernize distributed caching and state services. Lead client and server integration, migration, capacity planning, replication, failover, and observability for cache-backed serving capabilities.
  • Enable model-backed serving and traffic management. Partner with machine learning and auction teams to integrate model scores and decisions into real-time services, including traffic shaping and dynamic pricing capabilities.
  • Evolve logging and streaming infrastructure. Improve high-volume data collection, buffering, batching, transport, and downstream integration. Address throughput, backpressure, data integrity, and recovery across distributed pipelines.
  • Lead safe infrastructure modernization. Deliver infrastructure-as-code and shared-service migrations to Azure through staged validation, controlled cutovers, and practical rollback plans.
  • Drive operational excellence. Improve service-level objectives, monitoring, alerting, diagnostics, and on-call practices. Guide incident response and blameless postmortems, turning recurring production issues into durable engineering improvements.
  • Improve developer productivity and secure delivery. Advance build systems, CI/CD, deployment automation, configuration management, and reusable tooling. Embed security and privacy requirements into application and infrastructure design.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience.

Skills

Required:Leadership and people managementC/C++ software engineeringDistributed systems and cachingAzure/hybrid infra and IaCModel-backed serving and traffic managementObservability and reliability

Benefits

  • Benefits and other compensation information available via Microsoft careers page.
Last updated Oct 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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