Senior Software Engineer

Would you like to be part of a team that provides rich connectivity capabilities to private and hybrid cloud? Our team owns the Software Defined Networking (SDN) product that is a key component of Microsoft’s Hybrid Cloud portfolio. Our customers deploy SDN in private, and hybrid cloud via solutions such as Azure Stack Hub, Hyperconverged Infrastructure and Virtual Machine Manager. We are a fun, inclusive team that keeps the customers needs first. As a Senior Software Engineer, you will be part of the organization whose portfolio spans the Cloud Edge Stack, Azure Engineering Systems and Microsoft’s Operating Systems including Windows and Azure Linux. This portfolio impressively powers the world with more than one billion monthly active devices.

As part of our team, you will work on the best of distributed systems technology, you will design and build the central management and the agent services that implement the control plane policies on the end hosts. You will help modernize appliances that provide Gateway and Load balancer functionality to be performant and cross platform, using latest technologies such as eBPF (extended Berkeley Packet Filter) and DPDK (Data Plane Development Kit). You will build new sets of functionalities that meet the customers’ demands for performance, scale, distributed management, sophisticated support for Kubernetes, etc.  

In Core OS, we are responsible for the Operating Systems that power Azure, Microsoft's Linux OS, the platforms for Windows Client and Xbox, and our Windows Server ecosystem – through all of these, we support every one of our cloud businesses and billions of customers around the world. In this era of ubiquitous computing, systems software excellence has never been more important for Microsoft. High quality, high-efficiency operating systems and platform components underpin everything we do as a company, from making our systems more reliable for our customers, to increasing our competitiveness by reducing COGS, to delivering new features and capabilities to delight customers – that’s all us!

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.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances.  We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.

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• Design and implement partitioning and scaling out capability of micro services. 
• Add RESTful APIs for our SDN API surface. 
• Add new microservices and learn to extend data models where state needs to be preserved. 
• Use modern frameworks such as gRPC to exchange data and ensure consistency.  
• Design and implement test harnesses to push scale limits and measure performance and reliability. 
• Design and implement appliances that are cross platform, based on technologies such as eBPF (Extended Berkeley Packet Filter) and DPDK.
• Embody our culture and values.