Microsoft Senior Software Engineer - Azure HPC AI 

Ireland, Dublin 

36867991

As a member of our extended development and support team in Azure HPC/AI, you will work closely with other developers and industry experts around the world to help build a secure, reliable, scalable, and flexible platform to meet the technical computing challenges of HPC and AI workloads and help set the standards for this critical technology space.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND extensive technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
  • OR equivalent experience.
• Demonstrated technical experience in cloud computing, distributed systems, and/or high-performance computing (HPC) systems.
• Demonstrated experience maintaining high service reliability and availability for a production service or distributed system.
• Flexibility in schedule to accommodate working with team members and customers across multiple time zones.

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:

• Familiarity with Microsoft Azure cloud technology.
• Experience with Linux, containers, and related cloud-native open source technologies.
• Experience with high-performance computing workloads and/or job schedulers.
• Knowledge of networking fundamentals.

• Collaborates with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a scenario.
• Drives identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for a product, application, service, or platform.
• Creates, implements, optimizes, debugs, refactors, and reuses code to establish and improve performance and maintainability, effectiveness, and return on investment (ROI).
• Leverages subject-matter expertise of product features and partners with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project managers) to drive a workgroup's project plans, release plans, and work items.
• Acts as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) and guides other engineers by developing and following the playbook, working on call to monitor system/product/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions, alerting stakeholders about status and initiates actions to restore system/product/service for simple and complex problems when appropriate.
• Proactively seeks new knowledge and adapts to new trends, technical solutions, and patterns that will improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while also driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale.