Principal Software Engineer
About this role
Microsoft is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to help define the future of hardware strategy and performance architecture across Microsoft 365. This role sits at the intersection of large-scale distributed systems, AI workloads, hardware platform evolution, and software performance engineering. The position involves collaborating with engineering, infrastructure, and platform teams to ensure Microsoft 365 leverages emerging hardware capabilities while delivering industry-leading performance, efficiency, and scale.
Responsibilities
- Drive hardware strategy and hardware-software co-design for Microsoft 365, Copilot, Agents, PAC, and Substrate workloads.
- Define benchmarking, workload characterization, and performance evaluation frameworks to influence platform and infrastructure decisions across compute, GPU, memory, storage, networking, and accelerator technologies.
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