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As a Senior Software Engineer within the Azure Specialized team, you will design and deliver next-generation AI infrastructure for training and inference workloads. You will work across a wide spectrum of hardware architectures, network types, and processor types to build differentiating customer features and fundamental building blocks for the Azure platform. Your day-to-day responsibilities include defining, deploying, and sustaining hardware and software infrastructure, focusing on hardware/software interaction, fiber networking, switches, gpu differentiation, rack design, and cluster design. You will create, optimize, and debug extensible code while ensuring system stability and performance. The role requires proficiency in languages such as C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python, along with experience in distributed systems and AI infrastructure to solve complex computing demands.
What does a Software Engineer earn in Remote?
Median $208800 from 354 postings across 50 companies.
Design and deliver next-generation AI infrastructure for training and inference workloads on Azure.
Define, deploy, and sustain hardware and software infrastructure for GPU-based workloads.
Engineer end-to-end systems including fiber networking, switches, rack design, and cluster design.
Write, optimize, debug, and refactor extensible code to improve performance and maintainability.
Identify dependencies and develop design documents for products, applications, services, or platforms.
Act as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) to monitor systems and restore services during downtime.
Build a test-driven engineering culture to reduce regressions and bugs in production.
Evaluate and recommend emerging hardware and software technologies to advance Azure infrastructure.
What we're looking for
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field and 4+ years of technical engineering experience with coding in languages like C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python (or equivalent).
Ability to meet Microsoft, customer, and/or government security screening requirements.
Must pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire and every two years thereafter.
Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field and 6+ years of technical engineering experience with coding in languages like C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python (preferred).
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field and 8+ years of technical engineering experience with coding in languages like C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python (preferred).
2+ years of experience on Distributed Systems (preferred).
2+ years of experience in AI Infrastructure (preferred).
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