Principal Software Engineer

Microsoft is a company where passionate innovators come to collaborate, envision what can be and take their careers further. This is a world of more possibilities, more innovation, more openness, and the sky is the limit thinking in a cloud-enabled world.

The AI Platform organization at Microsoft builds the end-to-end Azure AI stack/PaaS and is core to Azure’s innovation and differentiation, as well as all of Microsoft’s flagship products, from Office to Teams, to Xbox. We are looking for a Principal Software Engineer to join the team building Azure OpenAI, Azure ML, Cognitive Services, and the global Azure AI infrastructure for running the largest AI workloads on the planet.

We do not just value differences or different perspectives. We seek them out and invite them in so we can tap into the collective power of everyone in the company. As a result, our customers are better served.  Within AI Platform, the Azure ML team enables data scientists and developers to quickly and easily build, train, deploy, manage, and consume machine learning models.

Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline 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
• 2+ years of experience developing and operating low latency, high scale online services optimizing for single- and double-digit millisecond latencies 
• 3+ years of C/C++ and/or Python development 

Other Requirements

Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings: Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Preferred Qualifications 

• Low-level experience with optimized serving on python using async frameworks such as gevent, starlite, fast API 
• Low-level experience working with protocols including TCP, HTTP2, GRPC  
• Low level experience configuring and running proxies and gateways such as Envoy, Azure API Management Gateway and scripting languages like LUA 
• Knowledge and experience in OSS, Docker, Kubernetes, Python, GOLANG, Rust programming languages   
• Experience serving deep learning AI models at scale especially LLMs and Diffusion models
• Experience in distributed computing and architecture
• Good communication, collaboration skills and a great team player 
• Experience working in a geo-distributed team 

Software Engineering IC6 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $161,600 - $286,200 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 $209,600 - $314,400 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay   

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until November 15, 2024.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances.  We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.

Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.

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• Engage directly with key partners to understand and implement complex routing, rate limiting and load balancing capabilities for state-of-the-art LLMs and Diffusion models to optimize for utilization, throughput and latency
• Work with cutting edge hardware stacks and a fast-moving software stack to deliver best of class inference and optimal cost
• Anticipate, identify, assess, track, and mitigate project risks and issues in a fast-paced start up like environment
• Motivated to build constructive and effective relationships and solve problems collaboratively
• Support production inference SLAs for core AI scenarios on one of the largest GPU fleets in the world

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Embody our culture and values