MTS-Lead-Full Stack Efficiency And Observability

Overview

Microsoft AI is looking for a Member of Technical Staff - Technical Lead, Observability, to help create and lead a team to deliver Capacity Intelligence and Fleet Observability tools. We’re looking for someone who will bring an abundance of positive energy, empathy, and kindness to the team every day, in addition to being highly effective. The right candidate enjoys building world-class consumer experiences and products in a fast-paced environment. You will wear multiple hats and work on engineering, research, and everything in between. Your contributions will span capacity, efficiency, data architecture, training and inference infrastructures, and many other exciting topics at the cutting edge of AI. 

Microsoft AI is building foundational models to develop novel responsible and efficient artificial general intelligence. The foundational models require large compute capacity, and as a Technical Lead/Manager you will be responsible for building a team to deliver world-class user experience for our executives as well as our ML researcher. You’ll work closely with research and framework teams to turn their requirements into intuitive experiences that lead to efficiency improvements. As a contributing member of the core group of engineers, you would also bring to the table best practices driving architectural changes and influence roadmap of relevant software components.  

Microsoft AI Team 

The Microsoft AI team’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.  

This role is part of Microsoft AI Team; MAI is a startup-like team inside Microsoft AI, created to push the boundaries of AI toward Humanist Superintelligence—ultra-capable systems that remain controllable, safety-aligned, and anchored to human values. Our mission is to create AI that amplifies human potential while ensuring humanity remains firmly in control. We aim to deliver breakthroughs that benefit society—advancing science, education, and global well-being.  

We’re also fortunate to partner with incredible product teams, giving our models the chance to reach billions of users and create an immense positive impact. If you’re a brilliant, highly-ambitious and low ego individual, you’ll fit right in—come and join us as we work on our next generation of models! 

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. 

By applying to this Bengaluru, India position, you are required to be local to the Bengaluru area and in office 4 days a week. 

Responsibilities

• Build a team that delivers innovative products in a fast-paced environment
• Lead a key role in shaping architectural decisions, mentor engineers, drive execution and turn complex, high-scale, and high-volume data into intuitive visual experiences
• Lead the design and development of features to provide visibility into model performance and quality across our fleet
• Integrate with backend APIs from schedulers, training frameworks, and production inference systems to build visibility across the model life cycle
• Explore, develop, and adapt new innovations to the software development process
• Contribute to the development of internal tooling and infrastructure
• Implement best software development practices to ensure code quality. Hold a high-quality bar.
• Embody our culture and values.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Math, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field AND 10+ years experience including 2+ years in a technical leadership role.
• Expertise with building large-scale telemetry systems and experience with distributed systems
• Solid understanding of web performance, accessibility, and cross browser compatibility
• Deep experience with building developer platforms and infrastructure tooling
• Experience with Agentic Development & Debugging with dev environments such as Visual Studio or Visual Studio Code
• Experience in leading technical projects and supporting architectural decisions with data. 
• Experience with Capacity Management, Efficiency Management, ML Training and/or Inference will be a big plus