[Hiring] Principal Supercomputing Operations Software Engineer @Microsoft

Role Description

Microsoft Azure’s Artificial Intelligence and High Performance Computing (AI/HPC) organization powers some of the world’s largest cloud native supercomputers used for frontier AI training, scientific computing, and large scale distributed simulations. Our team builds and operates hyperscale GPU clusters that consistently place Azure among global leaders in the Top500, MLPerf, and Graph500 benchmarks.

As a Principal Supercomputing Operations Engineer, you serve as the technical authority and strategic owner for interconnect fabric operations across flagship AI supercomputing environments. You treat InfiniBand and GPU interconnect fabrics as a single end to end reliability domain, defining how they are operated, debugged, hardened, and scaled in production.

• Lead the most complex and impactful fabric related incidents.
• Make high stakes technical decisions under ambiguity while balancing availability, risk, long term correctness, and customer impact.
• Define failure models, operational strategy, and systemic prevention mechanisms that reduce recurrence at fleet scale.
• Set operational standards, influence engineering direction across teams, mentor senior engineers, and partner with platform, hardware, firmware, and service teams.
• Architect and drive automation, diagnostics, and telemetry that improve operability and debuggability of interconnect fabrics.
• Author authoritative playbooks, TSGs, and escalation models relied on across the organization.

Qualifications

• Required Qualifications:
• 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 OR equivalent experience.
• Other Qualifications:
• Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements.
• Preferred Qualifications:
• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 10+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, OR Python OR equivalent experience.
• 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 equivalent experience.
• 6+ years of experience operating large‑scale distributed systems, high‑performance computing (HPC), or artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure in production environments.
• Demonstrated ownership of mission‑critical production infrastructure with direct impact on service availability, GPU workloads, and customer SLAs.
• Hands‑on experience operating and debugging interconnect fabrics supporting large‑scale compute workloads.
• Strong Linux systems knowledge with experience debugging low‑level infrastructure issues across operating systems, drivers, and services.
• Proven ability to reason across hardware, firmware, drivers, and software stacks to diagnose and resolve complex production issues.

Requirements

• Software Engineering IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $142,800 - $274,800 per year.
• There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $188,000 - $304,200 per year.

Benefits

• Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.
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Company Description

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances.

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