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 solid 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 manager will lead a team delivering complex systems in close partnership with Applied Science, Product, Policy, Security, Privacy, Compliance,



and partner engineering teams.

The Larger Platform Scope Includes
- AI-powered Trust & Safety intelligence for understanding advertisers, domains, websites, landing pages, business identities, reputation, provenance, and policy/fraud risk.
- Deep Research Agents and AI-assisted workflows for advertiser investigation, domain review, evidence gathering, policy reasoning, reviewer assistance, appeals, and fraud analysis.
- Decisioning and enforcement systems for policy enforcement, fraud detection, abuse prevention, advertiser risk scoring, and marketplace protection.
- Model-serving and orchestration infrastructure for LLMs, SLMs, wide & deep models, ensembles, classical ML, heuristics, rules, and policy controls.
- Security, Risk, and Fraud systems for threats such as phishing, malware, cloaking, account takeover, payment abuse, fake business identities, compromised advertisers, coordinated

📌 Principal Software Engineering Manager | Ads Trust (Bengaluru)
🏢 Microsoft AI
📍 Bengaluru