Microsoft Silicon, Cloud Hardware, and Infrastructure Engineering (SCHIE) is looking for passionate, high-energy engineers to help achieve Microsoft's "Intelligent Cloud" mission by developing and testing highly programmable and high-performance DPUs with integrated software and hardware expertise for storage and networking use-cases, deployed at planet scale.
Requirements
- coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C, or Python
- testing networking, storage or server platforms as a lead engineer owning releases and mentoring/guiding a team of engineers.
- testing and/or writing embedded software for NICs and/or DPUs/IPUs.
- Understanding of and hands-on experience with networking (TCP/IP, RoceV2, routing/switching), Software Defined Networking, and server platform firmware (BMC, BIOS etc) testing.
- Experience with doing performance analysis and complex debug/troubleshooting in both lab and live site situations.
Responsibilities
- Provides technical leadership to teams to identify the scope of testing to create a quality plan for DPU based compute products.
- In partnership with key stakeholders creates and manages project schedules.
- Leads the team by providing technical expertise and oversight, monitors test plan execution and quality to ensure that testing is efficient and executed according to plans.
- Also be equally hands on and adept with technical work – be it programming/scripting, debugging, etc.
- Research new tools, technologies, and methods to determine which solution best meets the project requirements.
- involved in the testing of the control and data plane software that runs on the DPU’s custom-built silicon in a variety of new platforms targeted at storage and networking use-cases.
- build and test innovative products that will be deployed at planet scale.
Other
- Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role.
- Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
- 4+ Years previous experience in testing networking, storage or server platforms as a lead engineer owning releases and mentoring/guiding a team of engineers.
- Microsoft will accept applications for the role until Oct 6, 2025
- Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer.
