# Principal Software Engineering Manager | Ads Trust & Safety AI Platform

**Company**: Microsoft
**Location**: Bengaluru, India
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology
**Ticker**: MSFT
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2283

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## Description

Microsoft Advertising is seeking a Principal Software Engineering Manager to lead a key engineering area within the Ads Trust & Safety AI Platform. This team builds platform capabilities for advertiser and domain intelligence, AI-assisted investigation, model serving, decisioning, enforcement, human review, observability, and risk/fraud protection.

The ideal candidate has technical credibility to guide architecture, management experience to build and grow a high-performing team, and operational discipline to deliver reliable platform capabilities in a complex, high-integrity environment.

Responsibilities:

- Lead and grow a highly technical engineering team responsible for core areas of the Ads Trust & Safety AI Platform.

- Set technical direction and execution priorities across platform delivery, quality, reliability, operational excellence, and live-site readiness.

- Hire, coach, and develop engineers and technical leads.

- Own delivery for major platform components.

- Partner with senior ICs, architects, and other teams to translate business needs into scalable platform capabilities.

- Drive productionization of AI/ML and agentic capabilities.

- Deliver real-time, nearline, and batch decisioning systems for policy enforcement, content moderation, fraud detection, and marketplace protection.

- Evangelize the team’s platform capabilities across Microsoft Ads and relevant Microsoft Trust teams.

Qualifications:

- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related technical field.

- 8+ years of EM experience leading software engineering teams.

- Experience leading engineering teams that build and operate large-scale production systems.

- Technical depth in one or more of the following areas: AI/ML systems, model-serving infrastructure, decisioning systems, distributed systems, data platforms, workflow platforms, risk platforms, security platforms, or Trust & Safety systems.

- Experience partnering with Applied Science, Product, or cross-functional stakeholders.

- Exposure to production AI/ML systems.

- Understanding of production requirements for AI or decision systems.

- Experience building high-integrity systems.

- Demonstrated ability to hire, grow, coach, and retain strong engineering talent.

- Strong communication skills.

## Skills

### Required
- AI/ML systems
- model-serving infrastructure
- decisioning systems
- distributed systems
- data platforms
- workflow platforms
- risk platforms
- security platforms
- Trust & Safety systems
- leadership
- software engineering management

### Nice to have
- Trust & Safety
- Fraud
- Abuse
- Risk
- Security
- Ads Quality
- Marketplace Integrity
- Policy Enforcement
- advertiser protection systems
- adversarial systems
- phishing
- malware
- cloaking
- account takeover
- payment abuse
- fake identities
- compromised advertisers
- coordinated fraud
- policy evasion

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