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As a Software Engineer with us, you will play a crucial role in building a robust public cloud. This position offers a unique chance to deepen your expertise in large-scale system design, implementation, and maintenance. You will gain a comprehensive understanding of cloud engineering and accelerate your career growth in the cloud industry.

The Azure Host Networking team is at the forefront of Software-Defined Networking (SDN). We develop the host data path that enables SDN controllers to perform high-speed packet manipulations and virtualization. This is where innovation meets execution.

Join us as a Senior Software Engineer to build the world’s fastest public cloud and make a difference to millions of people across the planet. As a developer in the network datapath team, you would be responsible for building, testing and deploying networking acceleration on Azure including Single Root I/O Virtualization (SRIOV) and Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK) for network appliances, Linux network acceleration, embedded systems, etc. You should be able to drive projects with other teams in Microsoft, our hardware partners and various Linux distros.

Microsoft Azure is on a mission to build a world-class cloud network, and we are looking for passionate systems software developers to join our team. If you thrive on working closely with hardware to create cutting-edge network systems software and services, and enjoy taking projects from concept to production, this is the opportunity for you.

Responsibilities

• Collaborates with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a scenario.

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

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

• 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.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

+ Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C or C++ OR equivalent experience.

+ 3+ years of experience working in operating system or system software development.

+ 1+ year(s) experience in computer networking.

Other Requirements:

+ Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings:

+ Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Preferred Qualifications:

+ Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science

+ OR related technical field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript,

+ OR Python

+ OR Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python

+ OR equivalent experience.

Software Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $117,200 - $229,200 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 $153,600 - $250,200 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until May 31, 2025.

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Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, 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 and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations (https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/accessibility.html) .