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About the Role
The Firmware Center of Excellence (FW CoE) is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to architect and deliver highly scalable cloud services for firmware lifecycle management across Azure hardware platforms. These services will distribute critical updates to millions of servers worldwide, ensuring reliability, security, and operational excellence. You will lead high-impact initiatives, solve complex distributed systems problems, and advance intelligent automation for firmware deployment and infrastructure reliability.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate intelligent cloud services for firmware lifecycle management, fleet health, and platform reliability across Azure’s global infrastructure.
- Lead the development of AI-driven and autonomous platform capabilities to improve deployment orchestration, firmware compliance, predictive maintenance, and infrastructure remediation at hyperscale.
- Drive complex, cross-organizational initiatives across Azure Infrastructure, AI, Hardware, Firmware, and Datacenter Operations teams to deliver innovative platform solutions.
- Architect scalable systems leveraging telemetry, machine learning, and automation to proactively detect, diagnose, and remediate out-of-service nodes and infrastructure health issues.
- Solve challenging distributed systems and cloud-scale engineering problems while advancing operational excellence, reliability, and efficiency across diverse hardware generations, SKUs, and firmware technologies.
- Provide technical leadership and influence Azure-wide engineering strategy through innovation, execution excellence, and collaboration across multiple organizations.
Requirements
- Bachelor's 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.
- Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements.
- Must pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
Skills
- C
- C++
- C#
- Java
- JavaScript
- Python
- AI-driven engineering practices
- Automation
- Data-driven decision making
- Firmware technologies
- Infrastructure lifecycle management
- Cloud-scale fleet operations
- Reliability engineering
- Fleet health management
- Service remediation
- Operational excellence at hyperscale
Location
- U.S.
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Principal
- 6+ years technical engineering experience
- 8+ years technical engineering experience
- 12+ years technical engineering experience
- 10+ years of experience architecting, building, and operating large-scale distributed systems and cloud services
Education Level
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field
- Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field
Salary/Compensations
- USD $142,800 - $274,800 per year (U.S. typical base pay range)
- USD $188,000 - $304,200 per year (San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area)
Benefits
- Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.
About the Company
- 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.
Equal Opportunity
- 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.