Principal Group Engineering Manager

Microsoft Ads serves billions of ad decisions every day across multiple products and markets. Trust & Safety is foundational, protecting users from harmful or deceptive content, protecting advertisers from fraud and abuse, and ensuring compliance with policy, privacy, and regulatory expectations. We are seeking a Principal Software Engineering Manager to lead the Ads Trust & Safety Platform team. This team builds the engineering platforms that power Trust & Safety end-to-end across Microsoft Ads: Web entity intelligence/fidelity for domains, websites, landing pages, and related graphs/signals; Real-time and nearline decisioning + enforcement workflows; Serving infrastructure that runs diverse model stacks (LLMs, SLMs, wide & deep, ensembles, classical models) integrated with feature computation and signal stores; Human-in-the-loop and agentic workflows, with strong auditability and governance; Measurement and observability to track quality, latency, cost, and enforcement stability