System Engineer 5

Indotronix International Corporation • Redmond, WA

1d • Onsite

About The Position

Join a high-impact research engineering team at Microsoft as a senior System Engineer 5. This onsite role in Redmond, Washington, is a six-month contract focused on building, maintaining, and automating infrastructure for a new micro-VM platform that supports scalable, low-latency AI workloads. The engineer will collaborate with researchers and engineers and help move a high-visibility project from prototype to production. Relocation support is available for qualified candidates. Candidates must be authorized to work in the US without sponsorship.

Requirements

• At least 3 years of Linux systems administration, troubleshooting, and scripting experience.
• At least 3 years of CI/CD pipeline, test automation, and engineering workflow experience.
• At least 3 years of systems or infrastructure engineering experience, including virtualization, cloud compute, or environment management.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Computer Engineering.
• Strong open-source contribution and GitHub track record.
• Prior experience at a major technology company.
• Proven ability to work closely with engineering teams and drive infrastructure improvements.
• Must be authorized to work in the US without sponsorship.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with AIOps, MLOps, or AI-enabled automation.
• VM lifecycle management, performance benchmarking, and systems research exposure.
• Familiarity with agentic workload environments, Windows/Linux hybrid environments, and DevOps best practices.

Responsibilities

• Provision and manage multi-platform Linux and Windows cloud compute environments for the engineering team.
• Automate environment setup, configuration, and access to accelerate onboarding and reduce friction.
• Maintain and optimize CI/CD pipelines, test infrastructure, and automation workflows for rapid developer iteration.
• Own and extend benchmarking frameworks, track key system metrics, and surface performance regressions.
• Design and execute single-instance and concurrent-burst benchmarking experiments.
• Ensure reliable delivery of build artifacts, kernel, VM, and agent binaries.
• Troubleshoot OS-level or infrastructure issues in complex development environments.
• Maintain compliance and cost-efficiency across cloud subscriptions and environments.

Benefits

• Opportunity to collaborate with world-class engineers and researchers at Microsoft.
• Direct impact on a high-visibility project moving from prototype to production.
• Hands-on experience with the latest in micro-VM, AI infrastructure, and cloud engineering.
• Relocation assistance for qualified candidates.
• Flexible, one-and-done virtual interview process.

What This Job Offers

• Career Level: Senior