Principal Software Development Manager

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Join our Strategic Planning and Architecture (SPARC) team within Microsoft’s Azure Hardware Systems & Infrastructure (AHSI) organization and be a part of the organization behind Microsoft’s expanding Cloud Infrastructure and responsible for powering Microsoft’s “Intelligent Cloud” mission.

Microsoft delivers more than 200 online services to more than one billion individuals worldwide and AHSI is the team behind our expanding cloud infrastructure. We deliver the core infrastructure and foundational technologies for Microsoft’s cloud businesses including Microsoft Azure, Bing, MSN, Office 365, OneDrive, Skype, Teams and Xbox Live.

This role is for a highly motivated Principal Software Development Manager with a background in software development with Network interface card(NIC) and Graphic processing unit(GPU) at a low level, working with collective communication libraries, and developing networking simulation environments. In this role you will lead and participate in software development as part of a team focused on evaluating new NICs and network fabrics, evaluating new network technologies, and defining network architectures for advanced AI systems.

Responsibilities

You’ll be expected to collaborate and drive efforts across multiple teams within Microsoft. You will bring a detail-oriented mindset and a bias for action. You will work with a wide group of stakeholders, from senior leaders to hardware engineers, program managers, and product managers. An ability to execute in a fast-paced and ever-evolving environment is necessary. Some of your responsibilities will be to:

  • Hire and lead a small team of software engineers.
  • Lead work focused on network technology evaluation. This will include creating low level NIC and GPU software as well as running, developing and optimizing collectives libraries.
  • Oversee development and evaluation of network algorithms using network simulation tools such as NS3.

Qualifications

Required/Minimum Qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C++, Python
    • OR equivalent experience.
  • Experience and background in networking technologies and Software Engineering Management.

Other Requirements

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.

Preferred Qualifications

 

  • Expertise in computer networking, thorough understanding of transport protocols, traffic patterns, flow control, load balancing, congestion control.
  • Experience with network simulation infrastructure and tools (e.g., NS3, OMNeT++, Booksim).
  • Familiarity with architecture and implementation details of network interface cards(NIC) and switching hardware.
  • Familiarity with Graphic processing unit(GPU) programming, especially with collectives and communication primitives.
  • Past experience with high-performance networking, including working with NVLink, InfiniBand and/or Remote direct memory access(RDMA) protocols (e.g., RoCEv2, iWARP), Message passing interface(MPI), libfabric (OFI), and collective communication libraries (e.g., NCCL, RCCL, MSCCL).
  • Growth mindset/curiosity for learning and deploying new technologies.

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