About the position
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 Azure Data Processing Unit (DPU) team brings together state-of-the-art software and hardware expertise to create a highly programmable and high-performance chip with the capability to efficiently handle large data volumes. Thanks to its integrated design, this solution empowers Azure to develop solutions for solving the next generation problems with increased agility and performance leveraging the DPU’s compute, storage, and networking capabilities.
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, deploy and support networking packet forwarding and control plane functions.
- Enable high performance data processing within various network endpoints in Azure data centers.
- Collaborate with technical stakeholders in a cross functional team manner.
- Contribute towards the success of multiple projects and initiatives across the organization.
- Develop new solutions for the Azure fleet.
- Participate in the design of cutting-edge networking solutions.
- Hone design and performance optimization skills.
- Define and deliver operational measures of success for quality, delivery, scale and sustainability related to Microsoft cloud software.
Requirements
- Proven experience in software engineering, particularly in networking software.
- Strong understanding of data processing and networking technologies.
- Experience with high-performance computing and large data volume handling.
- Ability to work collaboratively in a dynamic, multi-talented team environment.
- Passion for customer-focused solutions and insight into industry trends.
Nice-to-haves
- Experience with Azure or similar cloud platforms.
- Knowledge of hardware-software integration.
- Familiarity with agile development methodologies.
