Principal Software Engineer

Microsoft’s bold vision of Azure Machine Learning (ML) is to democratize ML and make it available to every enterprise, developer and data scientist. Do you want to join a team that builds the platform to run all internal and external ML workloads? We are already serving billions of requests per day on the most cutting-edge scenarios and models across the industry

You will be joining the Inference team that builds the model-serving platform for large models including the OpenAI generative models. We host models at the scale of Bing and Office and solve exciting problems on the intersection of AI and Cloud.

We are looking for a strong Software Engineer who is passionate about designing and building highly reliable, available platform to support model inferencing at scale. You will also be expected to work on high throughput/low latency scenarios and drive performance optimization capabilities.

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Responsibilities

Responsibilities: 

As an SME and architect in the team, you will work with a team of passionate engineers across the Azure inference areas to  
• Design, implement, test, and operate key Azure AI services. 
• Release features on time, with high quality, meeting functional, performance, scalability, and compliance requirements. 
• Drive quality right from the design phase, evangelising best practices and engineering for scale. 
• Solve problems relating to mission critical services and create solutions to prevent problem recurrence. 
• Participate and drive live site for the services

Qualifications

Required and Preferred

• B Tech or M Tech in computer science, engineering, mathematics or a related field, or equivalent industry experience.
• 18+ years of software development experience. Work experience of running a real time service with high throughput and low latency requirements is a plus.

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