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Principal System Engineer

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Microsoft Corporation

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United States , Redmond

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Salary:

139900.00 - 274800.00 USD / Year

Job Description:

Microsoft Silicon, Cloud Hardware, and Infrastructure Engineering (SCHIE) is the team behind Microsoft’s expanding Cloud Infrastructure and responsible for powering Microsoft’s “Intelligent Cloud” mission. SCHIE delivers the core infrastructure and foundational technologies for Microsoft's over 200 online businesses including Bing, MSN, Office 365, Xbox Live, Teams, OneDrive, and the Microsoft Azure platform globally with our server and data center infrastructure, security and compliance, operations, globalization, and manageability solutions. Our focus is on smart growth, high efficiency, and delivering a trusted experience to customers and partners worldwide and we are looking for passionate engineers to help achieve that mission. As Microsoft's cloud business continues to grow the ability to deploy new offerings and hardware infrastructure on time, in high volume with high quality and lowest cost is of paramount importance. To achieve this goal, the CHSE (Cloud Hardware Systems Engineering) team is instrumental in defining and delivering operational measures of success for hardware manufacturing, improving the planning process, quality, delivery, scale and sustainability related to Microsoft cloud hardware. We are looking for seasoned engineers with a dedicated passion for customer focused solutions, insight and industry knowledge to envision and implement future technical solutions that will manage and optimize the Cloud infrastructure. We are looking for a Principal System Engineer to join the team.

Job Responsibility:

  • Work with many Enterprise-class servers and networking technologies to create designs used to deploy very large scale BareMetal or Cloud hardware offerings
  • Create configuration documentation used to procure, manufacture, and deploy Servers, Racks, and Rows of hardware at scale
  • Provide guidance to and work with System Integrators to build hardware designs in factory as needed
  • Interface with engineering development teams, gather requirements and provide feedback on SKU design feasibility and constraints
  • Communicate effectively across engineering groups and stakeholders to define priorities, schedules and resources needed
  • Create and maintain dashboards for project status
  • Lead internal and external process improvements, create process documentation, and bring different and new perspectives to solving problems
  • Partner with Engineering team members, business groups and data center infrastructure engineering groups, to define goals for new platforms at Microsoft
  • Partner with Sourcing, Supply Chain and Capacity Planning to ensure smooth handoff of server designs considering transition plans
  • Provide cross functional subject matter expertise on solution design to broader virtual teams
  • Monitor internal requests and establish standard processes to improve efficiency and provide internal customer support
  • Work independently to balance multiple tasks and competing priorities simultaneously
  • Effectively run cross-organizational meetings to lead teams to consensus and/or decisions to meet deliverables

Requirements:

  • Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related field AND 7+ years technical engineering experience OR Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience OR equivalent experience
  • 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

Nice to have:

  • Doctorate in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related field AND 5+ years of technical engineering experience OR Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience OR Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related field AND 12+ years technical engineering experience OR equivalent experience
  • Experience working with Enterprise class server and networking hardware from multiple vendors in development, operations, or manufacturing (Dell, HPE, Cisco, Netapp, IBM, and others)
  • Understanding of network administration or logical network topology planning
  • Experience creating complex technical documentation used to configure enterprise hardware devices
  • Understanding of Data center rack/row build out, air flow and other infrastructure constraints
  • Experience in managing Enterprise-level large-scale and complex projects/programs
  • Ability to work independently, drive projects, and self-serve solutions
  • Proven working knowledge of leading technology and best practices with configuration management and product data management
  • Experience working with engineering, supply chain, capacity planning, sourcing, and datacenter teams
  • Proven capabilities to drive positive business results through cross-group collaboration and partnerships
  • Must be able to establish milestones, short- and long-term timelines, and drive the work plan, adapting as necessary in a rapidly evolving environment
  • Proven communication skills, including the ability to clearly express technical concepts in verbal, concise logical presentation, and written forms
  • Ability to interact with diverse technical and non-technical groups spanning all organizational levels
  • Proven critical thinking, attention to detail, and resolution in sometimes ambiguous situations

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
March 19, 2026

Employment Type:
Fulltime
Work Type:
On-site work
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