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About the Role
The Hardware, Infrastructure Management, and Fundamentals Engineering (HIFE) organization drives hardware readiness, quality, reliability, and operational excellence across Microsoft’s cloud infrastructure. Fleet Engineering is transforming how complex infrastructure problems are solved by combining systems expertise with telemetry, automation, AI, and agentic workflows. This role solves challenging hardware, firmware, software, and system-level problems across Microsoft’s Global Azure Cloud, turning deep engineering insights into scalable diagnostics, automation, intelligent workflows, and reusable capabilities.
Responsibilities
- Architect and deliver AI-native, end-to-end system debug solutions for hyperscale datacenter infrastructure.
- Design and orchestrate human-agent engineering workflows that accelerate failure detection, triage, segmentation, root cause analysis, mitigation, remediation, and learning.
- Build specialized engineering agentic skills, tools, and reusable workflows that codify expert debug knowledge.
- Lead cross-functional debug and root-cause initiatives spanning hardware, firmware, software, platform, and datacenter systems.
- Own measurable improvements in system reliability and debug effectiveness.
- Lead investigation of complex and ambiguous system failures, applying deep technical judgment.
- Develop world-class at-scale debug methodologies, diagnostic strategies, validation techniques, and automated test routines.
- Engineer closed-loop learning systems that convert incidents and debug evidence into reusable knowledge.
- Define safe and governed agentic execution models, including human-in-the-loop controls.
- Drive the transition from engineer-driven execution to outcome-driven engineering.
- Provide technical leadership on emerging AI, agent, diagnostic, telemetry, and automation technologies.
- Communicate complex engineering insights, decisions, risks, and progress through data-driven narratives.
Requirements
- Ability to meet Microsoft, customer, and/or government security screening requirements, including Microsoft Cloud Background Check.
- Must pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire or transfer and every two years thereafter.
Skills
- AI agents in production operations
- Analytical rigor with large-scale telemetry and data tools
- Leading without line authority across organizational boundaries
- Decision-ready communication for engineers and executives
- Planning discipline in a fast-changing environment
- Coding in languages including C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
Location
- U.S.
- San Francisco Bay area
- New York City metropolitan area
Work Type
- Remote
- At-scale
Experience Level
- 3+ years technical engineering experience
- 5+ years technical engineering experience
- 6+ years technical engineering experience
- 8+ years technical engineering experience
Education Level
- Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related field
- Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related field
- Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field
Salary/Compensations
- USD $119,800 - $234,700 per year (U.S. typical base pay range)
- USD $160,200 - $261,000 per year (San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area base pay range)
Benefits
- Additional benefits and pay information available at https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay
About the Company
- Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer.
Equal Opportunity
- 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.