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Microsoft · 19 hours ago

Senior Software Engineer

United States

Full-time

Remote

Mid, Senior Level

$120K/yr - $235K/yr

4+ years exp

Microsoft is on a mission to build the next-generation distributed AI supercomputer, enabling breakthroughs in artificial intelligence. The Senior Software Engineer will design and develop networking infrastructure that powers large-scale AI training, focusing on high performance and low latency for distributed workloads.

Agentic AIApplication Performance ManagementArtificial Intelligence (AI)Business DevelopmentDevOpsInformation ServicesInformation TechnologyManagement Information SystemsNetwork SecuritySoftware

Growth Opportunities

No H1B

U.S. Citizen Only

Responsibilities

Design, develop, and optimize networking solutions tailored for large-scale AI training infrastructure. Architect and implement high-performance, low-latency, and low-jitter communication frameworks for distributed systems

Benchmark, analyze, and enhance the scalability and reliability of networking systems to handle petabyte-scale data transfer

Debug and resolve complex networking issues in large-scale, high-performance environments

Drive identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for a product, application, service, or platform

Create, implement, optimize, debug, refactor, and reuse code to establish and improve performance and maintainability, effectiveness, and return on investment (ROI)

Act as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) and guides other engineers by developing and following the playbook, working on call to monitor system/product/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions, alerting stakeholders about status and initiates actions to restore system/product/service for simple and complex problems when appropriate

Proactively seek new knowledge and adapts to new AI 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

Qualification

C/C++/C#/Java/JavaScript/PythonNetwork virtualizationSoftware-defined networking (SDN)Networking technologiesAI acceleratorsTelemetryObservability toolsProblem-solvingTeam collaborationAdaptability

Required

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

2+ years of experience with network virtualization, software-defined networking (SDN), or network performance tuning

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

Preferred

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 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 equivalent experience

Hands-on experience with networking technologies in AI-specific hardware (e.g., InfiniBand, ROCE, NVLink)

Familiarity with AI accelerators such as GPUs (NVIDIA, AMD) or TPUs, and how they interact with networking infrastructure

Experience with telemetry and observability tools for network monitoring at scale

Background in building scalable and fault-tolerant systems in large, distributed environments