Principal Reliability Architect - Microsoft Azure

Get ready to operate at hyperscale!

Our team impacts the resilience and operational efficiency of Microsoft's cloud offerings. Microsoft operates one of the largest fleets of computing systems in the world, comprising millions of heterogenous servers across hundreds of globally distributed data centers. Continuous innovation is needed to stay ahead of the effects of accelerating scale, increasingly unreliable Si manufacturing, increasing integration, and evolution of form factors. The recent explosion of AI infrastructure has created exciting new challenges and further increased the need for innovation.

In this Principal Reliability Architect - Microsoft Azure role, you will guide silicon providers toward new technologies, features, and system architectures that will deliver to the needs of Microsoft's core cloud businesses. You will work with platform architects and developers across layers of the Azure software stack to maximize use of hardware capabilities, improving Azure customer experience and operational efficiency. You will diagnose and react to fleet reliability issues when they arise, working with vendors and driving solutions across teams. You will help us fulfill our mission to make Azure the world's most reliable hyperscale cloud provider.

Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

Responsibilities

• Identify and promote hardware capabilities that support Azure's business objectives, especially related to quality as experienced by end customers.
• Lead engineer-to-engineer engagements with Azure's Si (Signal Integrity) providers to influence their product roadmaps and feature definitions, especially in the RAS (Reliability, Availability, Serviceability), Telemetry, and Quality of Service domains.
• Collaborate with Microsoft partner teams - cloud services, Operating System (OS)/Hyper-V software, firmware, and hardware system infrastructure - to turn hardware features into end-to-end solutions that deliver business value.
• Diagnose and resolve server reliability issues affecting the fleet, achieving improvements in service interruption rate, downtime, part replacement rate, and performance variability.
• Monitor and adapt to research, industry, and technology trends affecting at-scale operation of future data centers.
• Participate in industry standard bodies as needed to drive emerging technologies relevant for future data center systems.
• Embody our culture and values.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• 10+ years of technical engineering experience in Silicon research and development with emphasis on reliability and monitoring, including areas such as RAS features, Design for Test, Si failure modes, error and performance telemetry, and/or testing techniques.
  • OR Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field AND 8+ years of technical engineering experience
  • OR Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field AND 5+ years of technical engineering experience
  • OR Doctorate degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field AND 4+ years of technical engineering experience.
    

Other Qualifications:

• 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:

• 15+ years of technical engineering experience in Silicon research and development with emphasis on reliab