**Overview**
Microsoft Advertising serves billions of ad decisions every day across search, native, shopping, display, audience, and AI-powered advertising experiences. Trust & Safety is foundational to this marketplace: protecting users from harmful, deceptive, and low-quality content; protecting advertisers, publishers, and partners from fraud and abuse; and ensuring Microsoft Ads operates with strong policy, privacy, security, compliance, and regulatory integrity.
We are seeking a **Principal Software Engineering Manager** to lead a key engineering areas 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.
This role is for an engineering leader who can combine technical depth, strong people leadership, execution discipline, and production judgment. The manage...