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Lead as a customer‑embedded principal engineer to design, build, and ship production-grade solutions. Translate business needs into technical approaches, influence senior stakeholders, accelerate delivery in ambiguous environments, and transition work to FDE crews while driving long-term account impact.

Leads the architecture and delivery of secure, scalable Azure cloud and AI solutions for enterprise customers. Designs AI-powered applications, copilots, and intelligent agents; translates business needs into technical roadmaps; leads architecture reviews and technical delivery; optimizes performance, cost, and scalability; and drives Azure adoption, consumption, and measurable business outcomes through customer engagements.

Provides technical leadership for Azure SQL databases supporting a highly available Azure service. Responsibilities include database performance tuning, reliability and capacity planning, schema changes, data migrations, observability, incident response, root cause analysis, operational automation, and technical strategy. The role partners with software engineers, SREs, and architects to improve scalability, durability, cost efficiency, and long-term service reliability across teams.

Designs and develops FPGA SmartNIC networking acceleration for Microsoft Azure. Responsibilities include hardware architecture evaluation, RTL coding in Verilog/SystemVerilog, simulation, hardware testing, debugging, verification, scripting, software development, Agile collaboration, and production DevOps support. The role partners across hardware and software teams to deliver cloud networking infrastructure, including SDN capabilities, packet manipulation, and performance improvements.

Build and operate AI-powered automation, CI/CD systems, distributed services, developer tools, validation platforms, and code-intelligence capabilities. Own significant systems from architecture through production, improve engineering workflows using measurable results, scale reliable automation and delivery platforms, and integrate capabilities through APIs and MCP. Establish operational practices, participate in on-call support, conduct technical reviews, mentor engineers, and lead cross-team delivery of dependable engineering platforms.

Leads global datacenter conceptual design and strategy for building, power, cooling, telecom, controls, and infrastructure systems. Coordinates internal and external stakeholders, oversees multiple concurrent design projects, evaluates operational and implementation impacts, resolves complex technical challenges, develops schedules and business cases, and advises leadership on scalable, innovative datacenter solutions. The role also supports technical documentation, intellectual property development, industry analysis, and cross-group collaboration.

Design and implement PostgreSQL internals and indexing/query features for large-scale document workloads, extend query engine with BSON-aware operators and custom scan nodes, tune index pruning and storage, profile distributed systems for performance, collaborate with open-source DocumentDB/PostgreSQL communities, and participate in design/code reviews.

Build and maintain developer workflows, CI/CD and deployment automation, containerized development environments, SDK packaging and release pipelines, AI performance dashboards, and productivity tools. Design scalable software and developer tools for novel hardware platforms, collaborate with hardware and ML teams, manage C++ codebases, establish engineering standards, and optimize software delivery and production readiness.

Design and implement AI compiler features and optimization passes, using LLVM/MLIR and related tools. Develop code generation for new hardware, optimize AI workloads, and build AI software in C++ and Python. Collaborate with hardware architects and ML developers, define requirements, estimate effort, and drive coding standards and adoption.

Leads Americas security architects in customer-facing engagements, enterprise security strategy, architecture reviews, escalations, and product feedback. Drives customer growth, security adoption, resilience, risk management, and AI transformation. Develops managers and technical leaders, builds high-performing teams, engages executive stakeholders, and provides technical thought leadership across Microsoft security solutions, cloud security, identity, data protection, SIEM, XDR, and security operations.