Software Engineer 2
Microsoft · Posted Oct 18
Software, cloud computing, artificial intelligence, and hardware services
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About the role
Microsoft's AI Frameworks Networking & Systems Tools (NeST) organisation builds foundational system software that enables Microsoft's Maia accelerator platforms across pre-silicon development, hardware bring-up, cloud integration and production cloud infrastructure. The India Development Centre team works across control-plane services, host and device management, accelerator virtualisation, Kubernetes-based infrastructure, debugger tooling, hardware lifecycle management, telemetry and diagnostics. This role designs and builds scalable AKS/Kubernetes infrastructure for GPU and AI accelerator platforms, covering cluster lifecycle, node and resource management, deployment, availability, observability and automation.
What you will do
- Design and develop scalable AKS/Kubernetes infrastructure for GPU and AI accelerator environments.
- Build services and automation for cluster provisioning, configuration, upgrades and lifecycle management.
- Develop solutions for node lifecycle, health monitoring, failure detection and automated recovery.
- Improve infrastructure scalability, reliability and availability across large accelerator fleets.
- Build Kubernetes integrations for accelerator discovery, resource management, scheduling and workload enablement.
- Develop reliable software and automation for deployment, configuration and management of accelerator infrastructure.
- Improve telemetry, observability, diagnostics and operational readiness of distributed infrastructure.
- Diagnose complex issues across Kubernetes, containers, Linux, networking and accelerator infrastructure.
- Collaborate with Control Plane, systems software, hardware and platform teams to deliver end-to-end solutions.
- Contribute to architecture/design reviews, engineering practices, code quality and mentoring of other engineers.
- Apply AI-assisted engineering practices across design, coding, testing, debugging, code reviews and documentation to improve engineering velocity and quality.
- Use AI-assisted workflows to accelerate code comprehension, troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, test development and infrastructure automation.
- Leverage AI to accelerate learning and build deeper AKS/Kubernetes, distributed systems and AI infrastructure domain competency.
- Identify repetitive engineering and operational workflows that can be simplified or automated using AI-enabled engineering approaches.
- Share reusable AI-assisted engineering practices and technical knowledge to improve team productivity and engineering competency.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related technical discipline, or equivalent experience with 4+ years of industry relevant experience.
- Software development skills in Go, C++, C#, Python or similar languages.
- Experience building distributed systems, cloud infrastructure or platform services.
- Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, containerisation and cloud-native technologies.
- Understanding of distributed-systems concepts including scalability, concurrency, state management, resiliency and failure recovery.
- Experience developing reliable production software and debugging complex distributed systems.
- Design, problem-solving and cross-team collaboration skills.
- Demonstrated ability or experience using AI-assisted software engineering tools and workflows to improve development effectiveness, debugging, automation and software quality.
- Ability to rapidly develop expertise in complex infrastructure technologies and apply that knowledge to production engineering problems.
Preferred qualifications
- Experience with Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) or large-scale Kubernetes environments.
- Experience with cluster/node provisioning, Kubernetes controllers/operators, scheduling or resource management.
- Experience operating and scaling Kubernetes-based production infrastructure.
- Experience with GPU, AI accelerator or heterogeneous compute infrastructure.
- Experience with Linux, containers, networking and host-level system software.
- Knowledge of accelerator virtualisation and resource isolation concepts.
- Experience with infrastructure automation, CI/CD and configuration/deployment systems.
- Experience with telemetry, metrics, distributed tracing, observability and production diagnostics.
- Experience applying AI-assisted development to code generation, code comprehension, testing, troubleshooting, documentation and engineering automation.
- Experience using AI-enabled workflows to investigate complex distributed-system and infrastructure failures.
- Experience leveraging AI to automate repetitive infrastructure engineering and operational tasks.
- Ability to use AI-assisted learning alongside engineering fundamentals to accelerate development of Kubernetes, cloud infrastructure and accelerator-domain expertise.
- Experience sharing reusable AI-assisted engineering workflows and practices across an engineering team.
Benefits and support
- Compensation and benefits are detailed in the job posting
About Microsoft
Microsoft Corporation is a multinational technology company that develops, licenses, and supports a wide range of software products, services, and hardware devices. Best known for its Windows operating systems, Microsoft 365 productivity suite, and Xbox gaming consoles, the company has expanded heavily into enterprise cloud computing via Azure and advanced artificial intelligence solutions. As one of the world's most valuable public enterprises, it empowers individuals and businesses globally through innovative digital transformation.
- Industry
- Software
- Company size
- 228,000+ employees
- Founded
- April 4, 1975
- Location
- Redmond, Washington, USA
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Leadership
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Chief Financial Officer
Vice Chair and President
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