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. 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. As a Senior Software Engineer, 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.   

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, C++, C#, Java
  • OR equivalent experience.
• 1+ years of building distributed systems that are reliable and work at scale.

• 3+ years of experience building kernel drivers using C/C++. 

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: 

• Dedicated coding, debugging, testing, and problem-solving skills  
• Dedicated communication and collaboration skills  
• Competent understanding of systems software 
• Proficient design and implementation skills using C#, Java, or C++ 
• Experience with networking protocols and architecture is a plus 
• Experience with scripting languages 

Software Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $112,000 - $218,400 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 $145,800 - $238,600 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 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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Responsibilities   

• Design and implement appliances that are cross platform, based on technologies such as eBPF and DPDK
• 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.  

• Other

  • Embody our Culture and Values