System Engineer 5

Job Summary: System Engineer 5 - DevOps & Infrastructure (Onsite, 6-Month Contract, Redmond, WA), Join a high-impact research engineering team at Microsoft as a senior System Engineer 5. You’ll be instrumental in building, maintaining, and automating infrastructure for a new micro-VM platform that drives scalable, low-latency AI workloads. This is an onsite, 6-month contract opportunity in Redmond, WA, ideal for infrastructure experts ready to shape the future of AI-enabled cloud systems while collaborating with leading researchers and engineers. Relocation support is available., Provision and manage multi-platform Linux and Windows cloud compute environments for the engineering team.

• Automate environment setup, configuration, and access to accelerate onboarding and reduce friction.
• Maintain and optimize CI/CD pipelines, test infrastructure, and automation workflows for rapid developer iteration.
• Own and extend benchmarking frameworks, track key system metrics, and surface performance regressions.
• Design and execute single-instance and concurrent-burst benchmarking experiments.
• Ensure reliable delivery of build artifacts, kernel, VM, and agent binaries.
• Troubleshoot OS-level or infrastructure issues in complex development environments.
• Maintain compliance and cost-efficiency across cloud subscriptions and environments.

3+ years Linux systems administration, troubleshooting, and scripting.

• 3+ years CI/CD pipeline, test automation, and engineering workflow experience.
• 3+ years systems/infrastructure engineering (virtualization, cloud compute, environment management).
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Computer Engineering.
• Strong open-source contribution and GitHub track record.
• Prior experience at a major technology company.
• Proven ability to work closely with engineering teams and drive infrastructure improvements.

Preferred Skills

• Experience with AIOps, MLOps, or AI-enabled automation.
• VM lifecycle management, performance benchmarking, and systems research exposure.
• Familiarity with agentic workload environments, Windows/Linux hybrid environments, and DevOps best practices., Word

Opportunity to collaborate with world-class engineers and researchers at Microsoft.

• Direct impact on a high-visibility project moving from prototype to production.
• Hands-on experience with the latest in micro-VM, AI infrastructure, and cloud engineering.
• Relocation assistance for qualified candidates.
• Flexible, one-and-done virtual interview process.