Join our team as a Senior Software Engineer and be at the forefront of advancing cutting-edge network technologies for high-performance computing and artificial intelligence. In this critical role, you’ll lead the design, development, and optimization of network solutions that drive our HPC infrastructure. Your deep expertise will be instrumental in pushing the boundaries of performance, scalability, and reliability, ensuring our systems can handle the most demanding AI workloads. If you’re passionate about networking and eager to make a significant impact, we want you on our team

We are looking for candidates who are passionate about designing and optimizing RDMA networks for AI/Machine Learning and HPC workloads. The candidate will have experience on HPC/AI/ML middleware, RDMA networks, distributed systems, routing protocols, etc. The position will involve taking these skills and applying them to some of the most exciting HPC/AI workloads and thereby designing and optimizing RDMA networks for best performance and scalability.

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Responsibilities

• Willing to dive deeply into any level or layer of a problem.
• Willing to learn emerging network technologies, from hardware to software. Evaluate and make recommendations that advance Azure networking infrastructure and solutions for AI and other GPU-based workloads.
• Leads by example within the team by producing extensible and maintainable code. 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.
• Maintains communication with key partners across the Microsoft ecosystem of engineers. Ensures alignment with partners' expectations. Considers partner teams across organizations and their end goals for products to drive and achieve desirable user experiences and fitting dynamic needs of partners/customers through product development.
• Drives identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for a product, application, service, or platform.
• Creates, implements, optimizes, debugs, refactors, and reuses code to establish and improve performance and maintainability, effectiveness, and return on investment (ROI).
• Acts 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.
  
  

Embody our Culture and Values

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• 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++, or Python
• OR equivalent experience
• 4+ years of experience in software design and development
• 2+ years of experience in RDMA networks
  

Other Requirements

• 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 Qualifications

• 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.
• 3+ years of experience in RDMA network performance analysis and optimization
• Experience with Distributed Systems, AI/ML Network and Infrastructure, Co-Designing Hardware-Software, Mentoring members in the team
  

Software Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $117,200 - $229,200 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $153,600 - $250,200 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until September 11, 2024.

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