Overview
Microsoft Silicon, Cloud Hardware, and 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, Teams, 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. The Data Processing Unit (DPU) team brings together state-of-the-art software and hardware expertise to create a highly programmable and high-performance ASIC with the capability to efficiently handle large data streams. Thanks to its integrated design, this solution empowers teams to operate with increased agility and deliver significantly superior performance compared to CPU-based alternatives. We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join our DPU Runtime Operating System team responsible for developing cutting edge, high-performance, scalable and programmable DPU software. We seek a system generalist that will focus on developing high performance operating systems and runtime components, supporting software, tools, and processes. You will be spearheading efforts within our DPU Confidential Compute team, focusing on the development, maintenance, and review of software for the creation and integration of security features, , in-service software update services (ISSU), to enable our next-generation of confidential computeand advanced update capabilities. You will bring your operating systems, and embedded development experience to contribute to DPU driver code and related host software and support. Your contributions will have a wide impact across Azure through the development of the latest generation DPU-based products.
Responsibilities
- Architect and design firmware and software for the DPURuntime Operating System - Develop firmware update middleware and operating system capabilities. - Develop, maintain and debug DPU issues, with a productivity boosting mindset. - Design and implement improvements to make development and production debugging easier. - Participate in code reviews and provide feedback to other developers. - Work closely with both Software and ASIC teams on co-development of next generation Silicon.
Qualifications
Required - 8+ years of C/C++ programming experience - 3+ years of Computer Architecture and Operating Systems experience, with contributions to operating systems kernels, drivers, or other software. - 3+ years of broad systems generalist experience with demonstrated initiative in working beyond core competencies to solve problems, address defects, and enhance productivity. Preferred - 1+ years of experience leveraging AI technologies to boost personal or team productivity. - Experience with simulation and emulation - Experience with deploying Software and/or Platforms at scale Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements arerequired 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. 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.This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about
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