# Principal Software Engineering Manager

**Company**: Microsoft AI
**Location**: Bengaluru, India
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Microsoft Advertising, part of Microsoft AI (MAI), is a rapidly growing business powering global advertisers across search, display, and emerging AI-driven channels.

We are seeking a Principal Software Engineer Manager to lead key engineering investments within the Advertising CRM & Intelligent Business Platforms organization. This team develops AI-powered CRM, sales enablement, workflow automation, business intelligence, monetization, trust, compliance, and operational platform capabilities that empower Microsoft Advertising’s commercial ecosystem.

The role requires an engineering leader who can combine technical depth, solid people leadership, execution excellence, and business platform expertise. The manager will lead a team delivering large-scale enterprise and customer-facing systems in partnership with Product Management, Applied Science, Sales, Customer Success, Security, Privacy, Compliance, Finance, and partner engineering organizations.

**Responsibilities**

- Lead and Grow High-Performing Engineering Teams: Recruit, coach, and develop software engineers, technical leads, and engineering managers to deliver world-class Advertising CRM, Sales Enablement, Monetization, and AI-powered business platform solutions.

- Define Technical Strategy and Architecture: Establish the technical vision, architecture, and engineering roadmap for scalable, secure, reliable, and compliant CRM platforms.

- Drive AI Innovation Across Advertising CRM: Lead the adoption of Copilot, Generative AI, Agentic AI, and intelligent automation capabilities across CRM and monetization workflows.

- Deliver Business-Critical Platform Capabilities: Own execution and delivery of strategic investments spanning customer engagement, opportunity management, quoting, sales enablement, monetization, workflow orchestration, customer intelligence, and AI-powered business process automation.

- Build Solid Cross-Organizational Partnerships: Collaborate closely with Product Management, Applied Science, Customer Success, Sales, Finance, Security, Privacy, and partner engineering teams.

- Influence Product and Engineering Strategy: Partner with senior leaders across Microsoft Advertising and Microsoft AI (MAI) to shape long-term product vision, technical investments, platform strategy, and operational excellence.

**Qualifications**

- Required Qualifications:

+ Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 10+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience.   + 5+ years of engineering leadership and people management experience.   + Proven experience leading and scaling engineering teams delivering enterprise-grade CRM, Sales Enablement, Monetization, or business-critical platform solutions.   + Demonstrated success hiring, coaching, and developing engineers, technical leads, and engineering managers.

- Preferred Qualifications:

+ Solid architectural expertise in distributed systems, cloud-native services, microservices, and large-scale application platforms.   + Experience building and operating solutions on Microsoft Azure with a focus on reliability, scalability, security, and operational excellence.   + Experience partnering with Product Management, Applied Science, Design, and business stakeholders to deliver customer and business impact.   + Solid communication, collaboration, and stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence across organizations.

## Skills

### Required
- C
- C++
- C#
- Java
- JavaScript
- Python
- Azure
- Dynamics 365

### Nice to have
- Distributed Systems
- Cloud-Native Services
- Microservices
- Large-Scale Application Platforms

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