Senior Software Engineer

Microsoft is a leading technology company, and they are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join their Azure High Performance Computing and AI Platform team. This role involves designing and delivering the next generations of their platform, focusing on solving technical problems and collaborating with industry partners.

Responsibilities:

• Analyzes functionality, integration, and performance issues at various levels of the HW/SW stack on current and future generations of AI training platforms
• Designs and codes solutions that improve functional correctness, stability and performance of AI training oriented VM offerings and related services. When appropriate drives internal partner teams or industry partners to implement such solutions
• Optimizes, debugs, refactors, and reuses code to improve performance and maintainability, effectiveness, and return on investment (ROI). Applies metrics to drive the quality and stability of code, as well as appropriate coding patterns and best practices
• Holds accountability as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI), and collaborates with other engineers across products/solutions, working as on-call to monitor system/product/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions
• Develops a playbook for the team to resolve issues
• Maintains communication with key partners across the Microsoft ecosystem of engineers

Requirements:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, OR 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 6+ 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 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience
• Familiarity with AI Infrastructure
• Familiarity with Operating Systems fundamentals and virtualization technologies
• Experience on Distributed Systems
• Experience on High Performance Computing / Machine Learning middleware