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Principal Software Engineer
 Microsoft | |
 United States, Texas, Irving | |
| 7000 State Highway 161 (Show on map) | |
 Sep 14, 2025 | |
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OverviewMicrosoft Azure Artificial Intelligence/High Performance Computing (AI/HPC) team is looking for systems engineers, architects and thought leaders to enable customers in deploying, monitoring, profiling, and debugging their applications on hyperscale cloud infrastructure. Azure is enabling the largest supercomputing deployments to tackle complex computational problems in public cloud, evident from the various HPC products that have already made the mark on Top500, MLPerf and Graph500 rankings. At this supercomputing scale, we need specialized tools and techniques to maintain the reliability, runtime performance, health of the system and running jobs continuing to meet the Service Level Agreements (SLAs) of customers. Your job would be to build and use state-of-the-art tools and techniques, find operational gaps and instrument features to achieve the smooth operation of cloud-native supercomputers. As a Principal Supercomputing Engineer, you would also bring to the table establishing best practices drive architectural changes and influence roadmap of relevant software and hardware components. Your work will directly impact business goals of a wide range of users and facilitate the next wave of growth and innovation in AI, and HPC in the cloud in general.Microsoft's mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.
ResponsibilitiesPartners with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a set of scenarios.Leads identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for a product, application, service, or platform.Leads by example and mentors others to produce extensible and maintainable code used across products.Leverages subject-matter expertise of cross-product features with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project managers) to drive multiple group's project plans, release plans, and work items.Holds accountability as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI), mentoring engineers across products/solutions, working on-call to monitor system/product/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions.Proactively seeks new knowledge and adapts to new trends, technical solutions, and patterns that will improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while also driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale and shares knowledge with other engineers. | |