Principal Software Engineer, AI Infrastructure Management & Operations

Quick Facts

• Principal focus: Cloud-native platform and AI infrastructure operations at large scale

• Role: Lead architecture, design, and delivery of distributed systems and infrastructure services

Description

Lead the design and evolution of cloud-native services and distributed systems that support large-scale production environments, including service lifecycle management, resource orchestration, observability, reliability, and automation. Partner across engineering organizations to define technical direction and architecture across compute, networking, storage, and operational excellence, with a focus on AI infrastructure and accelerated computing platforms. Drive engineering excellence via CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, testing, security, monitoring, and operational readiness practices.

Responsibilities

• Lead design, development, and evolution of cloud-native services and platform capabilities for production environments

• Collaborate across organizations to define architecture for platform infrastructure, cloud services, networking, storage, compute, and operational excellence

• Guide platform engineering capabilities that improve deployment automation, service lifecycle management, observability, reliability, scalability, and developer productivity

• Advance engineering practices across the lifecycle: CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), testing, security, monitoring, and operational readiness

• Contribute to AI infrastructure, HPC platforms, bare-metal infrastructure, GPU environments, and large-scale distributed computing systems

• Work with datacenter architecture and networking solutions (rack-scale systems, Ethernet/InfiniBand fabrics, RDMA, SmartNICs, DPUs, accelerated computing)

• Mentor engineers, share knowledge, participate in design reviews, and foster technical excellence

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related technical field and 6+ years of technical engineering experience coding

• Proficiency coding in languages including (but not limited to) C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python

• Ability to meet security screening requirements, including passing the Microsoft Cloud background check and re-check every two years

Benefits

• Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation (see company pay information resources)