Principal Software Engineering Manager - Ads

About the role

Microsoft Advertising makes billions of decisions every day across search, native, shopping, display, audience, and AI-powered advertising experiences. We are looking for a Principal Software Engineering Manager to lead the engineering organization building Ads Quality systems at global scale.

What you'll do

• 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

What you need

• 15–27 years in software engineering
• Machine learning
• LLMs
• Any graduate