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Senior Software Engineer, AI Infra Management and Ops

Microsoft· Software Engineering
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United States$119.8k - $234.7kfull-timePosted 4d ago

About the role

Senior Software Engineer responsible for designing and evolving cloud-native platforms, distributed systems, and infrastructure services to support AI infrastructure, HPC, GPU environments, and large-scale datacenter operations. Focuses on platform efficiency, reliability, observability, and developer productivity across Microsoft’s AI/infrastructure stack.

Responsibilities

  • Design, develop, and maintain cloud-native services and distributed systems that support platform capabilities, service lifecycle management, and operational excellence at scale.
  • Collaborate across engineering organizations to define technical direction and architecture for platform infrastructure, cloud services, networking, storage, compute, and operational excellence investments.
  • Guide the development of platform engineering capabilities that improve deployment automation, service lifecycle management, observability, reliability, scalability, and developer productivity.
  • Advance software engineering practices including CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), testing, security, monitoring, and operational readiness throughout the engineering lifecycle.
  • Contribute to the design and operation of AI infrastructure, HPC platforms, bare-metal infrastructure, GPU environments, and large-scale distributed computing systems.
  • Collaborate on datacenter architecture and networking solutions, including rack-scale systems, network topology design, Ethernet and InfiniBand fabrics, RDMA, SmartNICs, DPUs, and accelerated computing platforms.
  • Foster a culture of technical excellence through architecture collaboration, mentorship, knowledge sharing, design review participation, and support for engineering excellence across the organization.

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:Cloud-native platformsPlatform engineeringCI/CDInfrastructure as Code (IaC)Security and monitoring
Nice to have:Programming languagesAI infrastructure
Last updated Oct 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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