Principal Software Engineering Manager, AI Experiences Monetization

As part of Microsoft AI Experiences the Monetize Platform powers an open transparent advertising marketplace connecting advertisers and publishers across thousands of websites and applications. Its buy-side and sell-side technology enables customers to access and trade premium advertising inventory efficiently and at global scale.

The Monetize Real-time Platform executes dynamic advertising auctions in less than 100 milliseconds handles more than 8 million queries per second and approximately 100 billion requests per day and generates more than 150 TB of new data daily. Its distributed systems support auction execution ad delivery and marketplace accounting under demanding performance and reliability constraints.

We are seeking a Principal Software Engineering Manager to lead the Infrastructure Operations and Shared Tech team. The teams scope spans foundational infrastructure production operations and selected shared software services and libraries that power the real-time platform. These capabilities include distributed caching model and configuration distribution low-latency decision-service integration traffic management and high-volume logging and streaming pipelines.

You will combine people leadership with deep technical judgment to advance platform architecture operational excellence and engineering productivity across hybrid on-premises and Azure environments. You will guide engineers working on performance-sensitive C/C services shared-runtime modernization distributed-cache migrations and the integration of model-backed capabilities into real-time serving.

This role requires a leader who can connect infrastructure decisions to application behavior and business outcomes. You will own the teams roadmap and delivery develop engineers and partner across platform product machine learning and infrastructure teams to deliver reliable shared capabilities that make the broader engineering organization more effective.

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AI Experiences employees who live within a 50- mile commute of a designated Microsoft Hub in the U.S. are expected to work from the office at least four days per week. This expectation is subject to local law and may vary by jurisdiction.

• Lead and develop engineers. Hire coach and grow a team spanning infrastructure operations and shared-platform software. Establish clear expectations support career development and foster an inclusive culture of technical excellence and accountability.
• Own the teams roadmap and delivery. Translate platform and product needs into priorities architectural plans and measurable outcomes. Balance feature delivery with reliability security technical debt infrastructure cost and operational sustainability.
• Guide shared-platform architecture. Lead the design and evolution of reusable services libraries interfaces and runtime components used across real-time applications. Establish clear ownership boundaries and maintain compatibility as systems evolve.
• Advance low-latency software engineering. Guide improvements in concurrency asynchronous execution memory safety data structures and resource efficiency for high-throughput Linux services. Maintain a high bar for design reviews code quality and automated testing.
• Modernize distributed caching and state services. Lead client and server integration migration capacity planning replication failover and observability for cache-backed serving capabilities. Ensure predictable behavior under timeouts partial failures and changing workloads.
• Enable model-backed serving and traffic management. Partner with machine learning and auction teams to integrate model scores and decisions into real-time services including traffic shaping and dynamic pricing capabilities. Preserve latency budgets decision correctness fallback behavior and experimentation controls.
• Evolve logging and streaming infrastructure. Improve high-volume data collection buffering batching transport and downstream integration. Address throughput backpressure data integrity and recovery across distributed pipelines.
• Lead safe infrastructure modernization. Deliver infrastructure-as-code and shared-service migrations to Azure through staged validation controlled cutovers and practical rollback plans. Coordinate dependencies across networking storage and data-platform teams.
• Drive operational excellence. Improve service-level objectives monitoring alerting diagnostics and on-call practices. Guide incident response and blameless postmortems turning recurring production issues into durable engineering improvements.
• Improve developer productivity and secure delivery. Advance build systems CI/CD deployment automation configuration management and reusable tooling. Embed security and privacy requirements into application and infrastructure design.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6 years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including but not limited to C C C# Java JavaScript or Python
  • OR equivalent experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Masters Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 8 years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including but not limited to C C C# Java JavaScript or Python
  • OR Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 12 years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including but not limited to C C C# Java JavaScript or Python
  • OR equivalent experience.
• 3 years of people management experience leading software engineering teams including coaching performance management and career development.
• Experience designing delivering and operating large-scale distributed systems including performance-sensitive backend services.
• Experience leading cross-team engineering initiatives involving shared platforms infrastructure or production-service modernization.
• Solid understanding of software architecture and production reliability including concurrency resource management and distributed-system failure modes.
• Experience with high-performance C/C software on Linux including multithreading asynchronous I/O memory ownership profiling and efficient data structures.
• Experience building shared libraries or foundational services adopted by multiple engineering teams including interface evolution and backward compatibility.
• Experience with distributed caches or key-value systems such as Aerospike Garnet Redis or comparable technologies including replication failover capacity planning and client integration.
• Experience with Kafka or comparable streaming systems and high-throughput logging or data-distribution pipelines.
• Experience integrating machine learning scores or model-backed decisions into latency-sensitive production services; model-training experience is not required.
• Experience with traffic shaping rate limiting admission control or other mechanisms for balancing throughput capacity and business value.
• Experience operating Azure and hybrid infrastructure including virtual machine scale sets networking storage and infrastructure-as-code technologies such as Terraform or Bicep.
• Experience with configuration management tools such as Puppet or comparable systems CI/CD pipelines and automated build and test environments.
• Experience delivering migrations using feature flags experimentation shadow traffic staged rollouts and rollback strategies.
• Experience with observability technologies such as Grafana or OpenTelemetry and with service-level objectives incident management and operational automation.
• Experience with advertising auctions pricing inventory-quality controls or other high-volume real-time transaction systems.

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Software Engineering M5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $142800 - $274800 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $188000 - $304200 per year.

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position will be open for a minimum of 5 days with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

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