Senior Software Engineer
- Location
- United States · On-site
- Job type
- Full-time
- Level
- Senior
- Experience
- 4+ years
- Education
- Bachelor's degree
- Listed
- 28 days ago
Skills & highlights for this role
- C++
- distributed systems
- virtualization
- high performance computing
Also useful
- machine learning middleware
- on-call incident response
About the role
Analyzes functionality, integration, and performance issues at various levels of the HW/SW stack on current and future generations of AI training platforms. Designs and codes solutions that improve functional correctness, stability and performance of AI training oriented VM offerings and related services. When appropriate drives internal partner teams or industry partners to implement such solutions.
Optimizes, debugs, refactors, and reuses code to improve performance and maintainability, effectiveness, and return on investment (ROI). Applies metrics to drive the quality and stability of code, as well as appropriate coding patterns and best practices.
Holds accountability as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI), and collaborates with other engineers across products/solutions, working as on-call to monitor system/product/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions. Develops a playbook for the team to resolve issues.
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, OR Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience.
Master'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 Bachelor'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.
Familiarity with AI Infrastructure Familiarity with Operating Systems fundamentals and virtualization technologies Experience on Distributed Systems Experience on High Performance Computing / Machine Learning middleware
From Microsoft's careers page, first listed on Rolev.ai on October 11, 2026. Rolev.ai is not the employer.
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