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JOB TITLE: Senior Software Engineer
The Senior Software Engineer joins the Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure Engineering Systems team to build cloud platforms, engineering infrastructure, and developer systems for AI services. You will design, implement, and ensure the reliability of engineering platforms, developer tooling, and Azure integrations for large-scale AI training and inference platforms. Daily responsibilities include optimizing distributed AI platforms for performance and cost efficiency, leading incident management to reduce detection and resolution times, and building automated validation frameworks. You will implement GPU and compute fleet optimizations while developing platform services and telemetry tools. The role requires proficiency in C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python. You will solve technical problems related to infrastructure automation, networking, security, and service lifecycle management to improve developer velocity and system reliability.
What does a Software Engineer earn?
Median $196000 from 2493 postings across 146 companies.
Design and optimize distributed AI platform components to improve availability, performance, and cost efficiency.
Lead incident management efforts to systematically reduce detection, mitigation, and resolution times for AI workloads.
Build and scale automated validation frameworks and test suites to identify regressions and maintain system stability.
Implement GPU and compute fleet optimizations to improve resource utilization and throughput at scale.
Develop platform services and internal tools to streamline engineering workflows and improve developer velocity.
Write production code and build telemetry tools to debug complex system issues and prevent incident recurrence.
Provide technical leadership and mentor engineers on multi-team initiatives across infrastructure, security, and networking.
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.
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).
Experience reading, writing, and debugging high-quality production code for internet-scale services, distributed systems, or compute platforms (preferred).
Experience building automated validation frameworks and developer-productivity tools (preferred).
Experience serving as a technical lead, mentoring engineers, and executing multi-team engineering initiatives (preferred).
Experience with AI training and inference infrastructure, incident management, and reliability measures such as TTD, TTM, and TTR (preferred).
C
C++
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
Azure
AWS
GCP
Kubernetes
Service Fabric
Distributed Systems
Telemetry
Real-time Data Processing
Inference Serving
Resource Scheduling
Distributed Systems
Kubernetes
C++
Python
C#
Java
Storage Systems
File Systems
KV Caching
RDMA
InfiniBand
RoCE
CUDA
GPU
Observability
Networking
Azure
Distributed Training
Python
Swift
C++
Objective-C
PyTorch
Hugging Face
LLM
RAG
RLHF
MLOps
CI/CD
AWS
GCP
Transformer Architecture
Reward Modeling
Data Science
API Development