Principal Software Engineer - AI Infrastructure
Full Job Posting
Define and drive the architecture and technical roadmap for platform reliability, observability, and operational health. Design unified health and telemetry capabilities that connect customer impact with application, capacity, dependency, infrastructure, and deployment signals. Develop platform safeguards for overload protection, capacity management, routing integrity, configuration consistency, and automated isolation and recovery. Establish engineering practices for production validation, progressive delivery, regression detection, fault testing, and automated rollback. Advance end-to-end request tracing and diagnostics across distributed services, including routing, retries, failover, and asynchronous operations. Lead cross-team architecture efforts, mentor engineers, and turn production learnings into reusable platform capabilities and measurable reliability improvements. Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 12+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience.
Experience
with AI/ML serving platforms, high-performance computing, accelerator-based infrastructure or other compute-intensive distributed systems.
Experience
with distributed tracing, capacity management, load balancing, admission control, retries, backpressure, and graceful degradation.
Proficiency in Azure Monitoring systems in the Azure ecosystem would be a plus.
Experience
designing, building, and operating large-scale distributed systems, cloud services, or other complex production platforms.
Experience
with reliability engineering, observability, service health, telemetry, and production incident response.
Demonstrated ability to lead complex technical initiatives and drive alignment across engineering teams and organizational boundaries.
Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain technical strategy and architectural decisions to engineers and senior leaders.
About Microsoft
Microsoft is a global technology company that develops software, hardware, and cloud services, known for products like Windows, Office, Azure, and Xbox.
Visit company websiteJobs and hiring trendsApply for this job in 1 click
Skip the repetitive application forms
Install the Base Career Chrome Extension and autofill job applications across major job boards with your profile.
Trusted by over 500,000 job seekers on Base Career
More from this employer
More jobs at Microsoft
Solution Sales Advisory IC4
Bengaluru, IND
Senior Critical Environment Electrical Engineering
Toronto, CAN
Senior Software Engineer
Bengaluru, IND
Business Architect - Agent 365
, USA
Construction Project Engineer
Milwaukee, USA
Global Partner Development Manager
Redmond, USA
Solution Engineering (Early in Profession)-Cloud Endpoint
Sydney, AUS
Senior Silicon Supply Chain Program Manager
Redmond, USA
