Senior Software Engineer DPU Integrations

Microsoft Silicon Cloud Hardware and Infrastructure Engineering (SCHIE) is the team behind Microsofts expanding Cloud Infrastructure and responsible for powering Microsofts Intelligent Cloud mission. SCHIE delivers the core infrastructure and foundational technologies for Microsofts over 200 online businesses including Bing MSN Office 365 Xbox Live Teams OneDrive and the Microsoft Azure platform globally with our server and data center infrastructure security and compliance operations globalization and manageability solutions. Our focus is on smart growth high efficiency and delivering a trusted experience to customers and partnersworldwideand we are looking for passionate high-energy engineers to help achieve that mission.

The DPU team within the Azure Hardware Systems & Infrastructure groupbrings togetherstate-of-the-artsoftware and hardwareexpertiseto create a highly programmable and high-performance chip with the capability to efficiently handle large data volumes. Thanks to its integrated design this solution empowers teams tooperatewith increased agility and deliver significantly superior performance compared to CPU-based alternatives.

As a Senior Software Engineer in the DPU Integrations and Operational Excellence team you will be involved in designing building testing and deploying the automation tools and agents needed for control and data plane software that runs on DPUs custom-built silicon in a variety of new platformstargeted at Azure compute and networking use-cases. This would entail building a deep understanding of the DPU architecture and the systems built using the DPU understanding the end-to-end customer workflows and building debugging skills required to troubleshoot field issues. You will be responsible for managing the field incidents maintaining dashboards for active/dormant cases tracking software/firmware releases and the fixes being carried in each and collaborating cross-functionally in the pursuit of case resolution. This is an opportunity to build testand support innovativeproducts that will be deployed on a planet scale.

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• Design build test and deploy innovative integration and diagnostics tools and AI agents to release quality products and reduce time to mitigate production issues.

• Provides technical leadership to teams toidentifythe scope of testing to create a quality plan forDPU partnership with key stakeholderscreatesandmanagesproject schedules.

• Leads the team by providing technicalexpertiseand oversight monitorstest plan execution and quality to ensure that testing is efficient and executed according to plans.

• Acts as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) and guides other engineers by developing and following the playbook working on call tomonitorsystem/product/service for degradation downtime or interruptions

• Alerting stakeholders about status and initiating actions to restore system/product/service for simple and complex problems whenappropriate.

• Guide and help debug field issues. Collaborate cross-functionally and drive debug sessions to arrive at root cause.

• Maintain dashboards of live/dormant cases and KPIs.

• Feedback learnings from field issues back into the engineering dev/test process.

• Embody our culture and values.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 4 years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including but not limited to C C C# Java JavaScript or Python

  • OR equivalent experience.

Other Qualifications

Abilityto meet Microsoftcustomerand/or government security screening requirements arerequiredfor this role. These requirements include but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings: Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will berequiredto pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Preferred Qualifications

• 6Years ofpreviousexperience indeveloping testingdiagnosingandtroubleshootingnetworking storageor compute cloud platforms as a lead engineer owning releases and mentoring/guiding a team of engineers.

• Experience with Azure or similar large scale cloud computing infrastructure control plane telemetry monitoring diagnostics reporting

• Experiencedeveloping and/or testing embedded software forNICs and/or DPUs/IPUs.

• Understanding and hands on experience with networking (TCP/IP RoceV2 routing/switching) Software Defined Networking and server platform firmware (BMC BIOSetc) testing.

• Experience with complex debug/troubleshooting in both lab and live site situations.

• Experience with dealing with large-scale data analysis toidentifythemes and root causes of issues

• Experience with AI agents to do live site tool automation and analysis

Software Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $119800 - $234700 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $160200 - $261000 per year.

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position will be open for a minimum of 5 days with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age ancestry citizenship color family or medical care leave gender identity or expression genetic information immigration status marital status medical condition national origin physical or mental disability political affiliation protected veteran or military status race ethnicity religion sex (including pregnancy) sexual orientation or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process read more about requesting accommodations.

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