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 abuse, and p

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