Microsoft
Principal Supercomputing Operations Software Engineer
$143K–$304K
United States · On-site · Principal · Full-time · Posted Sep 1, 2026
- Experience
- Required: 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding, or equivalent experience. Preferred: 10+ years with a bachelor's degree, 8+ years with a master's degree, or equivalent experience; also 6+ years operating large-scale distributed systems, HPC, or AI infrastructure.
- Education
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field, or equivalent experience.
About the job
Leads production operations, incident response, reliability engineering, and automation for InfiniBand and GPU interconnect fabrics in large-scale AI supercomputing environments.
What you'll do
- Own interconnect fabric operations and lead high-severity incidents through recovery and root cause analysis.
- Debug issues across fabric, GPU, hardware, firmware, driver, and OS layers; define reliability models and prevent recurring failures.
- Build automation, telemetry, diagnostics, and tooling, and author operational playbooks and escalation frameworks.
What they ask for
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field and 6+ years of technical engineering experience coding in a listed language, or equivalent experience.
- Ability to meet Microsoft, customer, and/or government security screening requirements, including the Microsoft Cloud Background Check.
- The posting lists hands-on interconnect-fabric operations and debugging, production infrastructure ownership, and Linux systems knowledge among preferred qualifications.
Nice to have
- 6+ years operating large-scale distributed systems, HPC, or AI infrastructure in production.
- Bachelor's degree plus 10+ years of technical engineering experience, or master's degree plus 8+ years, or equivalent experience; demonstrated ownership of mission-critical infrastructure and experience debugging across hardware, firmware, drivers, and software.
Pay
USD $142,800 - $274,800 per year (base salary); USD $188,000 - $304,200 per year (base salary)
Tools
InfiniBand, Subnet Manager, GPU interconnect, PCIe, GPUs, firmware, drivers, Linux
AI focus
Operates and improves interconnect fabrics for AI supercomputing infrastructure and large-scale AI workloads.
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