Senior Software Engineer

Microsoft Corporation; Dublin; On-site; EUR 125,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology company in Dublin is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for their Azure HPC/AI team. The role involves designing and delivering AI platform solutions, optimizing performance, and collaborating with various teams to ensure high-quality infrastructure. Candidates should have experience in high performance computing or machine learning. The position offers great benefits, including healthcare, educational resources, and generous leave policies.

Benefits

Industry leading healthcare

Educational resources

Discounts on products and services

Generous time away

Qualifications

• Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements.
• Experience with High Performance Computing environments.

Responsibilities

• Analyzes functionality, integration, and performance issues at various levels.
• Designs and codes solutions for AI training VM offerings.
• Optimizes and debugs code to improve performance.
• Holds accountability as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI).
• Maintains communication with key partners across Microsoft.

Skills

Experience in HPC or Machine Learning

Familiarity with Operating Systems fundamentals

Experience on High Performance Computing middleware

Experience on Profiling and Performance Analysis Tools

Job description

Azure High Performance Computing and AI Platform (HPC/AI) group is the team behind Azure’s cloud offering that powers some of the most demanding and largest AI training and inference workloads in the industry. The virtual machine (VM) series that our team owns feature cutting edge GPUs and accelerators, as well as a state-of-the-art scale-out network infrastructure to enable these workloads. We collaborate with many Microsoft teams and our industry partners to design and bring up the underlying platform, and we build the software to expose this platform as an Azure service.

As a Senior Software Engineer in the Azure HPC/AI team, you will play a critical role in designing and delivering the next generations of our platform by solving technical problems at all levels of the stack, contributing to our codebases to enable new features on our VMs, working on architectural proposals, and collaborating with our industry partners.

This position involves deep technical work that primarily focuses on hardware/software interactions, device virtualization, and performance analysis of GPU workloads in VMs. Since our team is also responsible for the vertical integration of our VM offerings, you will also have the opportunity to work with upper layers of the Azure infrastructure software.

It is an exciting time for the team as we are working on expanding the capacity and range of supported scenarios to fuel the next growth wave. This position offers a unique opportunity to have a huge impact on Microsoft’s AI infrastructure and AI initiatives.

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.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• Experience in HPC or Machine Learning

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 Operating Systems fundamentals and virtualization technologies
• Experience on High Performance Computing / Machine Learning middleware
• Experience on Profiling and Performance Analysis Tools

Responsibilities

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer who is committed to quality, wants the customer to succeed and gets things done. You will join a phenomenal team of hardworking engineers with deep experience in high performance computing, cloud infrastructure, operating systems, machine learning, and software engineering in general.

• Analyzes functionality, integration, and performance issues at various levels of the hardware/software 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.
• Maintains communication with key partners across the Microsoft ecosystem of engineers.
• Your mission will be to help ensure Azure platform is consistent on performance, can scale on-demand, and engineered to withstand the unparalleled computing demand from the customer workloads. You will help build a test-driven engineering culture to reduce regressions and bugs in production and will set a higher bar for infrastructure quality.

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

Industry leading healthcare

Educational resources

Discounts on products and services

Savings and investments

Maternity and paternity leave

Generous time away

Giving programs

Opportunities to network and connect

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.