Principal Software Engineer

Microsoft is looking for a Principal Software Engineer to join their Azure Artificial Intelligence/High Performance Computing team. The role involves developing tools and techniques for maintaining the reliability and performance of cloud-native supercomputers, while mentoring other engineers and influencing software and hardware roadmaps.

Responsibilities:

• Partner with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a set of scenarios
• Lead identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for a product, application, service, or platform, primarily catering towards exhaustive health monitoring of AI training supercomputers
• Build AI Supercomputer observability solutions at scale, with deep focus on actionability to improve availability and reliability of supercomputers
• Lead by example and mentor others to produce extensible and maintainable code used across products
• Leverage subject-matter expertise of cross-product features with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project managers) to drive multiple groups’ project plans, release plans, and work items
• Hold accountability as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI), mentoring engineers across products/solutions, working on-call to monitor system/product/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions
• Proactively seek new knowledge and adapt to new trends, technical solutions, and patterns that will improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while also driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale and share knowledge with other engineers

Requirements:

• Bachelor's 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
• Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings: Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter
• Master's 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 Bachelor's 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
• 2+ years of experience in building observability solutions
• 3+ years of specialized experience with one of AI/HPC system management OR High-Speed Networks OR HPC Storage OR managing Cloud Infrastructure
• Operational experience running large scale HPC systems or infrastructure situated in Cloud environments
• Previous experience with running and troubleshooting HPC/AI workloads on GPU-based HPC systems, AI assisted software development and secure software design practices
• Expertise in Cloud Computing, Virtualization and Container Technologies
• Proven ability and eagerness to work across and partner with multiple engineering teams to achieve business goals