Senior Software Engineer

Microsoft Cloud Hardware Infrastructure Engineering (CHIE) is the team behind Microsoft’s expanding Cloud Infrastructure and responsible for powering Microsoft’s “Intelligent Cloud” mission. CHIE 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.  

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join the Cloud AI & Advanced Systems Engineering (CAASE) team.

In the CAASE development team, you will design and implement software components to enable and optimize the Azure fleet. You will help enable specialized acceleration device hardware and customized offloading hardware in our servers in partnership with multiple teams across Microsoft, working on projects such as MAIA, Cobalt, and Boost. The software components you deliver include system software and cloud services that monitor, deploy and maintain cutting edge acceleration hardware in the Azure fleet at massive scale. This will involve running high-scale services with an always secure and livesite-first mindset. 

Your experience in Cloud Service development will leverage your communication skills, agility, engineering mindset and knowledge of system and Cloud scale software. 

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. In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day.

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Required 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++ or Rust
  • OR equivalent experience.
• 3+ Years Experience with system software, operating system internals, Linux or Windows device driver development 
• 2+ years experience developing host interface design and platform bringup for new hardware

Other: 

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 

• 5+ years of software design and development experience with C/C++, Rust 
• Built and shipped software including at least one product development cycle 
• Developed and managed cloud or hyper scale services or infrastructure  
• Understanding interaction of System Software, Hardware architecture and protocols 

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 and processes offers for these roles on an ongoing basis.

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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• Rapid cloud scale deployment of code and monitoring of telemetry  
• Design, develop and operate large scale, efficient and reliable cloud services 
• Work on complex, mission critical solutions that involve multiple Azure Services and a high degree of collaboration 
• Participate in on call coverage rotation, troubleshoot application issue and apply mitigations. 
• Drive continuous improvement on service quality and cogs efficiency. 
• Other:
  • Embody our culture and values.