5 days ago
Base Salary
$166k - $331k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own the architecture, design, implementation, and operational readiness of significant Azure Boost DPU software components.
- Develop low-level systems software spanning operating systems, virtualization, host infrastructure, device management, and DPU-host interaction layers.
- Design high-performance networking and storage dataplane capabilities optimized for throughput, latency, scalability, reliability, and efficiency.
- Build software interfacing with DPUs, accelerators, PCIe devices, virtualization technologies, and platform management subsystems.
- Lead technical execution, architecture reviews, design alignment, implementation quality, and delivery across multiple engineering teams.
- Diagnose and resolve complex platform, networking, storage, virtualization, performance, reliability, and security challenges.
- Establish software quality, testing, validation, observability, and operational-readiness practices for production environments.
- Collaborate with Azure Core, networking, storage, silicon, firmware, hardware, and platform engineering teams.
- Mentor and develop engineers through technical leadership, design reviews, code reviews, and hands-on guidance.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field and 8+ years of technical engineering experience with coding, or equivalent experience.
- Experience developing low-level systems software such as operating systems, kernel components, hypervisors, virtualization platforms, device drivers, or platform infrastructure services.
- Experience owning significant portions of a DPU, SmartNIC, host platform, or accelerator software stack.
- Experience with hardware acceleration interfaces including PCIe, DMA, SR-IOV, RDMA, NVMe, IOMMU, hardware offloads, and device virtualization.
- Experience designing software at the hardware/software boundary and collaborating with firmware, silicon, platform architecture, and hardware engineering teams.
- Experience developing performance-critical systems software in C/C++ and/or Rust.
- Experience building, debugging, and operating large-scale cloud infrastructure in production.
- Systems performance analysis, troubleshooting, and root-cause analysis skills across platform, networking, storage, or virtualization systems.
- Understanding of high-performance networking and storage dataplanes, I/O subsystems, latency, throughput, scalability, and resource efficiency optimization.
- Familiarity with Linux and Windows internals, virtualization technologies, container platforms, and cloud infrastructure architectures.
- Ability to lead technical design and execution across multiple engineering teams through architecture reviews, design leadership, and hands-on contributions.
- Preferred qualifications include a master's degree with 12+ years of experience or a bachelor's degree with 15+ years of experience, or equivalent experience.
- Ability to meet Microsoft Cloud Background Check and applicable customer or government security screening requirements.
Benefits
- Typical U.S. base pay range is $165,600-$296,400 per year, with a separate $220,800-$331,200 range for specified San Francisco Bay Area and New York City metropolitan locations.
- Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.
- The position is open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until filled.
About Microsoft
Microsoft develops operating systems, productivity software, cloud services, developer tools, and consumer devices for individuals, enterprises, and governments. Its main products include Windows, Microsoft 365, Azure, Visual Studio/GitHub, Xbox, and LinkedIn; revenue comes from software subscriptions and licenses, cloud consumption, hardware sales, and advertising. Founded in 1975 and headquartered in Redmond, Washington, Microsoft is a public company traded on Nasdaq.