Principal Software Engineer - Networking and Cloud Infrastructure

Principal Software Engineer

Overview

Microsoft Silicon, Cloud Hardware, and Infrastructure Engineering (SCHIE) is the team behind Microsoft’s expanding Cloud Infrastructure and responsible for powering Microsoft’s “Intelligent Cloud” mission. SCHIE delivers the core infrastructure and foundational technologies for Microsoft's 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 partners worldwide and we are looking for passionate, high-energy engineers to help achieve that mission. 

The Azure Data Processing Unit (DPU) team brings together state-of-the-art software and hardware expertise to 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 Azure to develop solutions for solving the next generation problems with increased agility and performance leveraging the DPU’s compute, storage, and networking capabilities. 

  

As a Principal Software Engineer in the DPU Networking software team, you will design, develop, deploy and support networking packet forwarding and control plane functions that enable high performance data processing within various network endpoints in Azure data centers. You will work as part of a dynamic, multi-talented team of engineers from across the world. You would collaborate with technical stakeholders in a cross functional team manner and contribute towards the success of multiple projects and initiatives across the organization. This opportunity will allow you to develop new solutions for the Azure fleet, participate in the design of cutting-edge networking solutions and hone your design and performance optimization skills. 

 

As Microsoft's cloud business continues to grow the ability to deploy new offerings and hardware infrastructure on time, in high volume with high quality and lowest cost is of paramount importance. To achieve this goal, the DPU Networking Software team is instrumental in defining and delivering operational measures of success for quality, delivery, scale and sustainability related to Microsoft cloud software. We are looking for seasoned engineers with a dedicated passion for customer focused solutions, insight and industry knowledge to envision and implement future technical solutions that will manage and optimize the Cloud infrastructure.  

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Responsibilities

• Collaborate with stakeholders to understand business needs and translate them into technical requirements and solutions. 

• Work across team and organizational boundaries to drive clarity and alignment. 

• Drives identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for a product, application, service, or platform. 

• Drives, creates, implements, optimizes, debugs, refactors, and reuses code to establish and improve performance and maintainability, effectiveness, and return on investment (ROI). 

• Conduct research, stay updated with the latest industry trends, and experiment with cutting-edge technologies to drive innovation. 

• Leverages subject-matter expertise of product features and partners with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project managers) to drive a workgroup's project plans, release plans, and work items. 

• Acts as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) and guides other engineers by developing and following the playbook, working on call to monitor system/product/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions, alerting stakeholders about status and initiates actions to restore system/product/service for simple and complex problems when appropriate. 

• Proactively seeks new knowledge and adapts to new trends, technical solutions, and patterns that will improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while also driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale. 

• Coaching and mentorship of fellow team members. 

• Effective communication skills and a passion for delivering scalable solutions through a diverse team of engineers. 

Qualifications

Required 

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or computer engineering, or related technical discipline AND 12+ years software development engineering experience  

•  OR equivalent experience. 

• 10+ years of experience in software design and coding of Layer3-4 ethernet/IP networking data plane packet forwarding within a programmable NIC OR network switches and routers OR a packet processing architecture with hardware offload 

• 10+ years of programming experience in C  

Preferred 

• Knowledge of L2/L3/L4 networking packet processing data path functions within a programmable NIC or Data center switch or a networking appliance 

• Experience in implementing networking solutions for high scale and throughput embedded networking solutions 

• Experience in developing networking software on DPUs or programmable NICs or other hardware offload architectures 

• CI/CD Experience: Knowledge of Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) practices for streamlined software development and deployment processes 

• Scripting for Developer Tools: Proficiency in scripting languages to build and enhance developer tools, automating repetitive tasks and improving workflow efficiency.

This 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.

Experience Level

Senior Level