Principal Software Engineer - Systems and Infrastructure

What you'll do

• Lead architecture and delivery across complex, large-scale infrastructure initiatives, balancing customer, business, and platform needs.
• Build reusable, secure, reliable, scalable platform services and establish engineering standards; mentor engineers and technical leaders.
• Improve the performance, efficiency, and reliability of large-scale AI workloads, including model inference, and lead operational debugging and incident prevention.

What they ask for

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding, OR equivalent experience.
• Coding experience in one or more of C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python.
• Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements, including the Microsoft Cloud Background Check.

Nice to have

• Master's Degree and 12+ years of technical engineering experience; OR Bachelor's Degree and 15+ years; OR equivalent experience.
• Experience with large-scale distributed systems or platforms, technical leadership, systems languages and concepts, open-source projects, or AI/ML infrastructure.

Pay

USD $165,600 - $296,400 per year (base salary); USD $220,800 - $331,200 per year (base salary)

Tools

C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Python, Rust

AI focus

Infrastructure for AI services and workloads, including improving model inference performance, efficiency, and reliability; preferred familiarity includes model serving, GPU computing, and distributed training.