Principal Software Engineer

Do you want to be at the forefront of innovating the latest hardware and systems designs to propel Microsoft’s cloud growth? Are you seeking a unique career opportunity that combines technical capabilities, cross team collaboration, with business insight and strategy?

Join our Leading-Edge Architecture Pathfinding (LEAP) team within the Strategic Planning and Architecture (SPARC) organization in Azure Hardware Systems & Infrastructure (AHSI). AHSI is the team behind Microsoft’s expanding cloud business, responsible for delivering the hardware systems and infrastructure for cloud computing across Microsoft Azure, Bing, MSN, Office 365, OneDrive, Skype, Teams and Xbox Live. 

The SPARC organization is responsible for strategy, planning and architecture pathfinding, and manages Azure’s hardware roadmap from architecture concept through production for Microsoft’s current and future on-line services. The LEAP team within SPARC is at the forefront of systems architecture and technology pathfinding spanning compute, memory, storage, network and system interconnects. Drawing on deep insights of workloads, emerging technology trends, and focused industry engagements, LEAP team’s charter is to define and evaluate novel systems architecture innovations through hardware/software co-design and advance them through technical readiness for productization.

The LEAP team is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to lead hardware/software co-design, software prototyping, and building reference designs to enable pathfinding for novel system architectures spanning memory tiering, memory disaggregation, data acceleration, and resource virtualization capabilities. This role has substantial technical responsibilities that require in-depth technical expertise in system software memory management internals, virtualization technologies, I/O sub-systems software for system interconnects such as CXL and PCIe, and memory tiering/pooling architectures. The candidate must have proven track-record of co-designing systems innovations collaborating with hardware/software/workload experts, building capable proof of concepts, developing and delivering high-quality reference software, and experience with influencing and driving innovations from concept to productization.