# Principal Software Engineer - AI Experiences, Monetization

OverviewInterested in being part of a team that powers a multi-billion-dollar business and helps shape the future of online advertising? Do you enjoy owning systems end to end, from distributed services and data to APIs and the applications customers use every day? Want to use AI to change how software is built and delivered? If so, we'd love to hear from you. At Microsoft AI Experiences, Online advertising is one of the fastest-growing businesses on the Internet, and Microsoft Advertising is a leading global platform serving advertisers at massive scale. The Microsoft Advertising Campaign Management team builds and runs the platform that lets advertisers create, manage, analyze and optimize millions of campaigns across Microsoft's advertising ecosystem. That platform includes the services, APIs, data pipelines and web applications behind the advertiser experience. We are starting a multi-year effort to modernize this platform. The work includes moving to cloud-native services, re-architecting core campaign workflows, adding AI-powered capabilities and improving engineering productivity. As a Principal Software Engineer, you will design and build solutions across every layer of the

- **Id**: 3886279
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/microsoft-principal-software-engineer-ai-experiences-monetization>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Washington, United States, Mountain View, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 12
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-10-30T03:05:52Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-06
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-08T09:45:42Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 9
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 6838
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Artificial Intelligence, Cloud Platforms (IaaS & PaaS), Gaming Consoles, Developer Tools

## Company

- **Id**: 18
- **Name**: Microsoft
- **Domain**: microsoft.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/microsoft>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Eightfold

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 84
- **Open postings**: 445
- **Ghost share**: 0.007
- **Stale share**: 0.602
- **Repost share**: 0.038
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 29
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-08T05:47:12Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 142800
- **Max**: 274800
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 274800

## Technologies

- **C#** — Optional: no
- **C++** — Optional: no
- **JavaScript** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 9

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 12
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: yes

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-06T19:36:53Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 6,957 · green card filings: 2,767; Filings 12m: 6957

## Liveness

- **Score**: 62
- **Band**: ok
- **Label**: Likely open
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.622
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 9
- **Expected fill days**: 29
- **Reasons**: conf:0, stale_co, velocity, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-08T05:47:12Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 274800
- **Is top pay**: yes

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