11 hours ago
Base Salary
$143k - $304k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, validate, debug, and optimize infrastructure software across operating systems, firmware, fleet health, hardware repair, telemetry, and monitoring.
- Define technical strategy and architecture for New Product Introduction, including platform bring-up, validation, deployment readiness, and lifecycle management.
- Design hardware and firmware reliability architecture covering health telemetry, diagnostics, failure detection, predictive insights, and remediation automation.
- Lead failure analysis and root-cause investigations for critical live-site incidents involving hardware, firmware, operating systems, storage, networking, and infrastructure platforms.
- Partner with Microsoft 365, Azure Hardware Systems, silicon providers, OEM/ODM partners, firmware teams, and operations organizations.
- Establish engineering standards, observability patterns, and operational mechanisms that improve fleet availability and reduce deployment risk.
- Evolve Microsoft 365 substrate infrastructure strategy for AI and agentic workloads across compute, memory, storage, and networking.
- Influence cross-organizational technical direction, communicate architectural tradeoffs, and mentor early-career engineers.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field and 6+ years of technical engineering experience with coding, or equivalent experience.
- Proficiency with one or more coding languages including C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python.
- Ability to meet Microsoft Cloud background check and applicable customer or government security-screening requirements.
- Preferred: master’s degree with 8+ years of experience, or bachelor’s degree with 12+ years of experience, or equivalent experience.
- Preferred: deep experience with hardware platforms, firmware, operating systems, drivers, datacenter infrastructure software, storage systems, networking, or platform software.
- Preferred: experience with New Product Introduction, platform validation, deployment readiness, lifecycle management, or fleet-scale hardware operations.
- Preferred: hyperscale live-site experience using telemetry, observability, failure analysis, predictive diagnostics, or automation to improve infrastructure reliability.
- Preferred: experience with silicon providers, hardware vendors, OEMs, ODMs, firmware teams, or platform engineering organizations.
- Preferred: experience influencing cross-organizational engineering strategy and driving complex technical programs across multiple teams.
- Preferred: ability to explain technical tradeoffs to senior engineering and business leaders and experience with Microsoft Secure environments or US Government clouds.
Benefits
- The typical U.S. base pay range is $142,800-$274,800 per year, with separate ranges for specified San Francisco Bay Area and New York City metropolitan locations.
- Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.
- Applications are accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled, with the posting open for a minimum of five days.
About Microsoft
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.