Senior Software Engineer

Microsoft Silicon and Cloud Hardware 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, Skype, 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. As Microsoft's cloud business continues to grow the ability to deploy new offerings and HW infrastructure on time, in high volume with high quality and lowest cost is of paramount importance.  

The Silicon and Cloud Hardware Infrastructure Engineering Firmware Development team is responsible for design and development of Server and Rack Infrastructure Firmware for Microsoft's online services. We work closely with Microsoft product groups, industry partners and researchers to architect and develop server hardware solutions that meet the requirements for our cloud services platforms at the lowest possible cost of ownership (TCO). We need to be always learning and insatiably curious. We need to be willing to lean into uncertainty, take risks and move quickly when we make mistakes, recognizing failure happens along the way to mastery. And we need to be open to the ideas of others, where the success of others does not diminish our own.  

Our teams are responsible for Firmware development and validation of server, silicon and rack infrastructure design with a focus on innovation for Azure infrastructure for Microsoft and their customers for MAIA and Cobalt product lines.  

If you are a seasoned engineer with passion for building highly reliable, scalable distributed systems; If you want hands-on firmware validation experience and like to produce impact across a large number of systems; if you have a penchant to learn and utilize your broad skill set to produce great customer impact; then this opportunity is for you - Join the Azure Firmware Center of Excellence and help us envision and build technical solutions to power Azure.  

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our team!

Required/Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline 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.
• 3+ years of professional experience in design/development, integration, validation, automation framework, or system level debugging in embedded systems
• 3+ years of problem-solving, debugging, unit/system testing, and troubleshooting skills. 
• 3+ years of experience in programming in Python or C or C++ or Rust

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: 

• Demonstrated experience in system level Integration, validation (including validation infrastructure setup), automation framework (such as Robot Framework), and debugging of system software 

• Hands on experience with Python, Powershell, YAML, Git, Visual Studio 

• Experience with Azure DevOps pipeline automation and artifact feeds 

• Knowledge of automation framework setup and deployment. 

• Experience of creating or working with automated testing pipelines (CI/CD). 

• Experience with Poetry, Pytest, MonkeyPatch, Pylint, Pydantic, JSON 

• Experience in firmware development and testing on multiple HW test environments (Boards, FPGA, Emulation, Simulation etc.) 

• Deep experience of system level debugging (including customer issues) with good understanding of managing and triaging production-level issues. 

• Excellent communication and inter-team collaboration skills. 

• Self-driven and independent, with a growth mindset and team-oriented attitude. 

• Open to feedback and willing to learn from mistakes to foster continuous improvement. 

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 January 8, 2025. 

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.

Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.

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• Architecture Design and Development: Own the architecture design and development for automation framework/infrastructure used in firmware validation. 
• System Software Coordination: Coordinate, integrate, and debug system software comprising different domains within server architecture (such as SoC FWs, BIOS, BMC, Rack Manager, etc.) and network connection interfaces (Serial, SSH, TCP, Telnet). 
• Big Picture Perspective: Understand the system-level “big picture” to ensure that integrated firmware/system software aligns with the architectural goals of the product. 
• Debugging and Troubleshooting: Exhibit excellent debugging and troubleshooting skills to ensure systematic closure of issues for subsequent releases. 
• Collaboration: Collaborate deeply with architects, firmware, program management, and component development teams for day-to-day operations and long-term roadmap improvements by feeding back key learnings. 
• Innovation: Be passionate about exploring and deploying novel methods to improve unit/integration test coverage, release/test automation pipelines, and the efficiency of our firmware releases. 
• Ownership: Take full ownership of features and bug fixes end-to-end. 
• Documentation: Create documentation for system design and wiki pages. 
• Project Planning: Plan project roadmaps for new features spanning several months and break them down into actionable tasks and deadlines.