Principal Platform Architect

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.

• Customer Focus – partner across Microsoft teams, collaborating to architect solutions for customer challenges.
• Industry Influence - Drive and influence external technology providers, design partners and standards bodies towards optimal components, solutions and standards to meet the future Azure infrastructure requirements.
• Technology Leadership – Drive concepts, definition & designs for industry leading Azure server platforms and generate intellectual property to help strengthen Microsoft’s position as a leader in Cloud Computing.
• Partnerships – build relationships with our internal technology and development partners to enable leading edge innovation in our next generation products, while optimizing performance, costs and risks.
• Drive Clarity - Distill and articulate architectural tradeoffs encompassing electrical, signal integrity, mechanical, power, and thermal inputs in terms of key metrics such as TCO, performance, schedule, and risk.

• Minimum Qualifications: Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related field AND 7+ years technical engineering experience of computer/server/storage platform architecture and design
• OR Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience
• OR equivalent experience
• Demonstrated expertise in multi-disciplinary server platform architecture and design.
• Ability to analyze solutions from a full TCO perspective, including but not limited to: CAPEX, OPEX, the system constraints that drive design tradeoffs, technology, quality and serviceability.
• Proficient communication skills to influence and partner across many Azure business and engineering teams.

• Industry leading healthcare
• Educational resources
• Discounts on products and services
• Savings and investments
• Maternity and paternity leave
• Generous time away
• Giving programs
• Opportunities to network and connect

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until October 25th, 2025.