Principal Software Engineer HWSW in Fleet Infrastructure
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Redmond, WA - USA
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Job Summary
The Fleet & Capacity organization within Microsoft 365 Core Platform is responsible for ensuring the right infrastructure is available in the right places at the right time to support Microsoft 365 services at hyperscale. The team drives capacity strategy hardware platform readiness fleet health reliability engineering lifecycle management and operational excellence across Microsofts global cloud infrastructure.
We are looking for a Principal Software Engineer - HW/SW in Fleet Infrastructure to provide technical leadership for the evolution of Substrates hardware and firmware this role you will shape New Product Introduction strategy hardware and firmware health architecture live-site reliability and the future direction of AI-optimized infrastructure.
You will work across Microsoft 365 Azure infrastructure hardware engineering teams silicon providers OEM(original equipment manufacturer)/ODM (original design manufacturer) partners and operations organizations to define architecture influence platform strategy and solve complex infrastructure problems at global scale.
This role requires strong technical depth architectural judgment and the ability to create clarity across highly ambiguous cross-organizational problems. Internal guidance for Principal engineers emphasizes broad scope cross-team architecture leadership strategic influence and creating conditions for successful collaboration across teams.
This position is based in Redmond Washington and requires the employee be in the office a minimum of 3 days per week.
Microsofts 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.
Responsibilities
Partner with broad teams to design develop validate debug and optimize infrastructure software across OS firmware fleet health hardware repair telemetry and monitoring areas.
Define the technical strategy and architecture for New Product Introduction across Microsoft 365 fleet infrastructure including platform bring-up validation deployment readiness and lifecycle management.
Lead hardware and firmware reliability architecture including health telemetry diagnostics failure detection predictive insights and remediation automation.
Drive failure analysis and root cause investigation for critical live-site incidents involving hardware firmware OS storage networking or infrastructure platforms and drive durable improvements that reduce recurrence.
Partner across Microsoft 365 Azure Hardware Systems silicon vendors OEM/ODM partners firmware teams and operations organizations to improve platform reliability scalability and serviceability.
Establish engineering standards observability patterns and operational mechanisms that improve fleet availability reduce deployment risk and strengthen hyperscale infrastructure operations.
Evolve M365 substrate infrastructure strategy for AI and agentic workloads across compute memory storage and networking domains.
Influence cross-organizational technical direction communicate complex tradeoffs clearly and help teams make durable architecture decisions.
Mentor early in career engineers.
Embody Microsofts culture and values.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelors 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 equivalent experience.
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.
- Masters 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 Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 12 years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including but not limited to C C C# Java JavaScript or Python
- OR equivalent experience.
- Experience leading architecture and technical strategy for large-scale distributed systems cloud infrastructure or hyperscale service platforms.
- Deep experience with hardware platforms firmware OS drivers datacenter infrastructure software storage systems networking or platform software.
- Experience with New Product Introduction platform validation deployment readiness lifecycle management or fleet-scale hardware operations.
- Experience on hyperscale fleet live site using telemetry observability failure analysis predictive diagnostics or automation to improve infrastructure reliability.
- Experience working with silicon providers hardware vendors OEMs ODMs firmware teams or platform engineering organizations.
- Experience influencing cross-organizational engineering strategy and driving complex technical programs across multiple teams.
- Communication skills with the ability to explain technical tradeoffs to senior engineering and business leaders.
- Microsoft Secure environment/US Gov clouds.
Software Engineering IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $142800 - $274800 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $188000 - $304200 per year.
Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:
position will be open for a minimum of 5 days with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.
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 with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process read more about requesting accommodations.
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