Microsoft · 7 hours ago
Senior Software Engineer
United States
Full-time
Remote
Mid, Senior Level
$120K/yr - $235K/yr
4+ years expMicrosoft is on a mission to empower every person and organization on the planet to achieve more, and they are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join their HPC/AI team. This role focuses on designing and building cutting-edge networking infrastructure for large-scale AI training, ensuring high performance and reliability in distributed AI workloads.
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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
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
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 8+ 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 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience
In-depth understanding of networking protocols (e.g., Ethernet, TCP/IP, RDMA, gRPC) and distributed systems
Familiarity with network virtualization, software-defined networking (SDN), or network performance tuning
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
Benefits
Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.
Company
Microsoft
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