Principal Software Engineer, Storage Infrastructure
Microsoft
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Redmond, WA · Posted October 9, 2026
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November 2026
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About the job
Overview The Foundry and Inference Training (FIT) team within Microsoft AI Infrastructure builds the platforms, systems, and operating mechanisms that enable teams to develop, train, deploy, and run AI services at scale. The FIT Infrastructure team builds storage and accelerated-compute platforms for large-scale AI training and inference on Azure. You will work across distributed storage, Kubernetes, GPU clusters, networking, and cloud-scale systems to deliver secure, reliable, high-performance, and cost-efficient infrastructure. As a Principal Software Engineer, Storage Infrastructure, you will design, build, and operate storage platforms for foundation-model pre-training, post-training, fine-tuning, and inference. You will partner with Azure infrastructure, networking, operating systems, and AI platform teams to solve challenging problems in storage performance, reliability, scalability, and developer productivity. This role offers opportunities to shape platform architecture,…
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