Site Reliability Engineer (HPC)

Microsoft
Redmond, United States of America
yesterday

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Working hours
Regular working hours
Languages
English
Experience level
Intermediate
Compensation
$ 275K

Job location

San Francisco, United States of America

Tech stack

Artificial Intelligence
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Build Automation
Azure
Bash
Computer Clusters
Computer Programming
DevOps
Distributed Systems
Fault Tolerance
Monitoring of Systems
Python
Machine Learning
Reliability Engineering
Datadog
Scripting (Bash/Python/Go/Ruby)
High Performance Computing
Delivery Pipeline
Grafana
Kubernetes
Information Technology
Docker

Job description

  • 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

Preferred Qualifications

  • 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.

Benefits & conditions

  • Work on cutting-edge infrastructure that powers the future of Generative AI.
  • Collaborate with world-class researchers and engineers.
  • Impact millions of users through reliable and responsible AI deployments.
  • Competitive compensation, equity options, and comprehensive benefits.

Software Engineering IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $142,800.00 - $274,800.00 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $188,000.00 - $304,200.00 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

Software Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $119,800.00 - $234,700.00 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $160,200.00 - $261,000.00 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

About the company

Microsoft is a global technology company headquartered in Redmond, Washington. Our mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. We develop, license, and support a wide range of software products, services, and devices that help individuals and businesses realize their full potential.

Our flagship products include the Microsoft 365 productivity cloud, Windows operating system, Azure cloud platform, and Dynamics 365 business applications. We are also a leader in areas such as artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, developer tools, and gaming through Xbox and Game Pass.

With operations in more than 190 countries and over 220,000 employees worldwide, Microsoft is committed to responsible innovation, inclusive economic growth, and sustainability. We work closely with governments, industries, and communities to ensure that technology serves the public good and helps address some of the world’s most pressing challenges.

As we celebrate our 50th anniversary in 2025, we continue to look forward—investing in AI, cloud, and quantum computing to shape the future of work, education, and society at large scale.

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