Software Engineer II

Microsoft is seeking a Software Engineer II to join its Azure High Performance Computing and AI Platform group. The role focuses on designing and delivering Azure AI infrastructure through hardware/software interaction, device virtualization, GPU workload performance analysis, coding, debugging, and collaboration with engineering and 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 service offerings. 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
• Your mission will be to help ensure Azure platform is consistent on performance, can scale on-demand, and engineered to withstand the unparalleled computing demand from the customer workloads. You will help build a test-driven engineering culture to reduce regressions and bugs in production and will set a higher bar for infrastructure quality

Requirements:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 2+ 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
• 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 3+ 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 5+ 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 Machine Learning, AI Infrastructure
• Familiarity with Operating Systems fundamentals or server platform architecture
• Familiarity with Accelerators
• 1+ years experience on High Performance Computing / Machine Learning middleware