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Senior & Principal Software Engineer - Systems & Infrastructure

Microsoft· Software Engineering
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Mountain View, CA$119.8k - $234.7kFull-timePosted 4w ago

About the role

Senior or Principal Software Engineer, Systems and Infrastructure within the AI Infrastructure Engineering Systems team, focusing on design and implementation of large-scale distributed infrastructure for AI workloads, with emphasis on data, storage, streaming, traffic, network, observability, security, and service lifecycle management.

Responsibilities

  • Own technical strategy and lead architecture discussions for broad or complex infrastructure requirements, evaluating design hypotheses, trade-offs, dependencies, and long-term system needs.
  • Design, implement, and optimize large-scale distributed systems for performance, scalability, resiliency, security, privacy, compliance, and cost efficiency.
  • Improve system observability and understandability through metrics, logging, telemetry, and tools that support developer productivity and reliable operation.
  • Independently create test strategies, incorporate security testing, improve test coverage, and address difficult-to-test areas through design or rearchitecture.
  • Diagnose production issues, conduct incident retrospectives, implement preventive actions, and drive automation across production deployment and routine operations.
  • Participate in and influence relevant open-source projects, and identify or build reusable internal and open-source tools that improve engineering effectiveness.
  • Communicate with stakeholders and partner teams, resolve cross-team dependencies, mentor engineers, and iteratively deliver software at scale.
  • Collaborate across infrastructure and AI teams to improve the performance, efficiency, and reliability of large-scale AI workloads, including model inference.
  • Drive complex, ambiguous infrastructure initiatives from problem discovery through architecture, implementation, and production, making sound technical decisions and navigating trade-offs with incomplete information.

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++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
  • OR equivalent experience.

Skills

Required:Distributed systems designObservability & monitoringSecurity testing & complianceMentoring & collaboration

Benefits

  • Benefits information is available via the Microsoft corporate pay and benefits pages referenced in the job description.
Last updated Sep 24, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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