Microsoft

Principal Supercomputing Operations Software Engineer

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2 months ago
Remote, United StatesStaff+
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Base Salary

$143k - $275k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Own InfiniBand and GPU interconnect fabric operations across large-scale AI supercomputing environments, ensuring GPU availability, training stability, and SLA compliance.
  • Lead high-severity fabric incidents through detection, triage, mitigation, recovery, and root-cause analysis.
  • Debug issues across InfiniBand, Subnet Manager, GPU interconnects, PCIe, GPUs, firmware, drivers, operating systems, and services.
  • Define reliability models, failure domains, operational standards, playbooks, technical support guidance, and escalation frameworks.
  • Architect automation, telemetry, diagnostics, and tooling to improve detection, observability, debuggability, and time to mitigation.
  • Provide technical leadership, influence engineering direction, mentor senior engineers, and partner with platform, hardware, firmware, and service teams.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related technical field and six or more years of technical engineering experience with coding, or equivalent experience.
  • At least six years of experience operating large-scale distributed systems, high-performance computing, or artificial intelligence infrastructure in production environments.
  • Demonstrated ownership of mission-critical production infrastructure affecting service availability, GPU workloads, and customer SLAs.
  • Hands-on experience operating and debugging interconnect fabrics for large-scale compute workloads.
  • Strong Linux systems knowledge and experience debugging low-level infrastructure issues across operating systems, drivers, and services.
  • Ability to reason across hardware, firmware, drivers, and software stacks to diagnose and resolve complex production issues.
  • Ability to meet Microsoft Cloud Background Check and applicable customer or government security screening requirements.
  • Preferred qualifications include a bachelor’s degree with ten or more years of experience, or a master’s degree with eight or more years of experience, or equivalent experience.

Benefits

  • The role is a full-time Microsoft position with a U.S. base pay range of $142,800–$274,800 per year; location-specific ranges apply in the San Francisco Bay Area and New York City metropolitan area.
  • Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.
  • Applications are accepted on an ongoing basis, with the position open for a minimum of five days.

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Microsoft develops operating systems, productivity software, cloud services, developer tools, and consumer devices for individuals, enterprises, and governments. Its main products include Windows, Microsoft 365, Azure, Visual Studio/GitHub, Xbox, and LinkedIn; revenue comes from software subscriptions and licenses, cloud consumption, hardware sales, and advertising. Founded in 1975 and headquartered in Redmond, Washington, Microsoft is a public company traded on Nasdaq.

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