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As Microsoft continues to push the boundaries of AI, we are on the lookout for passionate individuals to work with us on the most interesting and challenging AI questions of our time. Our vision is bold and broad — to build systems that have true artificial intelligence across agents, applications, services, and infrastructure. It’s also inclusive: we aim to make AI accessible to all — consumers, businesses, developers — so that everyone can realize its benefits. We’re looking for an experienced HPC Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to join our High Performance Computing (HPC) infrastructure team. In this role, you’ll blend software engineering and systems engineering to keep our large-scale distributed AI infrastructure reliable and efficient. You’ll ensure that AI systems stay efficient and reliable with very high uptimes.
Job Responsibility:
Reliability & Availability: Ensure uptime, resiliency, and fault tolerance of HPC clusters powering MAI model training and inference
Observability: Design and maintain monitoring, alerting, and logging systems to provide real-time visibility into all aspects of HPC systems including GPU, clusters, storage and networking
Automation & Tooling: Build automation for deployments, incident response, scaling, and failover in CPU+GPU environments
Incident Management: Lead on-call rotations, troubleshoot production issues, conduct blameless postmortems, and drive continuous improvements
Security & Compliance: Ensure data privacy, compliance, and secure operations across model training and serving environments
Collaboration: Partner with ML engineers and platform teams to improve developer experience and accelerate research-to-production workflows
Requirements:
Master's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND 2+ years technical experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, or Infrastructure Engineering
OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND 4+ years technical experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, or Infrastructure Engineering
OR equivalent experience
Strong proficiency in Kubernetes, Docker, and container orchestration
Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines for Inference and ML model deployment
Hands-on experience with public cloud platforms like Azure/AWS/GCP and infrastructure-as-code
Expertise in monitoring & observability tools (Grafana, Datadog, OpenTelemetry, etc.)
Strong programming/scripting skills in Python, Go, or Bash
Solid knowledge of distributed systems, networking, and storage
Experience running large-scale GPU clusters for ML/AI workloads (preferred)
Familiarity with ML training/inference pipelines
Experience with high-performance computing (HPC) and workload schedulers (Kubernetes operators)
Background in capacity planning & cost optimization for GPU-heavy environments
What we offer:
Competitive compensation, equity options, and comprehensive benefits