# Principal Software Engineering Manager, AI Experiences - Monetization

OverviewAs 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 team’s 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 streami

- **Id**: 3050222
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/microsoft-principal-software-engineering-manager-17>
- **Role**: Leadership
- **Role family**: Leadership
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: New York, United States, Washington, 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**: 2026-10-08T22:15:25Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-03
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-11T14:57:39Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 33
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 9640
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Console Games, 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**: A
- **Score**: 85
- **Open postings**: 487
- **Ghost share**: 0.006
- **Stale share**: 0.563
- **Repost share**: 0.047
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 29
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T05:49:22Z

## Salary estimate

- **Min usd**: 157000
- **Max usd**: 321000
- **Period**: year
- **Method**: role_seniority_country_remote_cell
- **Sample n**: 1354

## Technologies

- **Azure** — Optional: no
- **C#** — Optional: no
- **C++** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **Configuration Management** — Optional: no
- **JavaScript** — Optional: no
- **Linux** — Optional: no
- **Machine Learning** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **Aerospike** — Optional: yes
- **Apache Kafka** — Optional: yes
- **Bicep** — Optional: yes
- **Grafana** — Optional: yes
- **Incident Management** — Optional: yes
- **OpenTelemetry** — Optional: yes
- **Puppet** — Optional: yes
- **Redis** — Optional: yes
- **Terraform** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 33

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 12
- **Management years min**: 3
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

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

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-10-22T02:06:02Z

## 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**: 32
- **Band**: fade
- **Label**: Fading
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.589
- **P room**: 0.55
- **Age days**: 33
- **Expected fill days**: 29
- **Reasons**: conf:0, stale_co, velocity, win:tail, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T05:49:22Z

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