Software Development Engineer II

Company: Microsoft Corporation
Location: Redmond
Posted on: February 1, 2025

Job Description:

As a Software Development Engineer II in the Host Networking and Hardware Acceleration team, you would be contributing to Azure host networking infrastructure, including hardware/software co-design optimized to provide reliable and performant network for Azure hosts, innovation to deliver RDMA (Remote Direct Memory Access) transport for Artificial Intelligence workloads.You should have a passion for distributed systems, low level programming, understanding OS internals, virtualization, large scale system, performant design, test methodologies, and enjoy working on a fast-paced team who owns one of the most impacting services in the world.QualificationsRequired Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 2+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, Rust, or Python
  • OR equivalent experience.
  • 2+ years of experience in low level driver development
  • 2+ years of experience in software/hardware code designOther Qualifications:
    • 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:
        • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, Rust, or Python
          • OR Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 2+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, Rust, or Python
          • OR equivalent experience.
          • 3+ years experience in execution of complex cross-group, cross-disciplinary software engineering.
          • 3+ years experience with cloud infrastructure technologies.Responsibilities
            • Partners with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a set of scenarios.
            • Leads identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for a product, application, service, or platform.
            • Designs and implements extensible and maintainable code used across products.
            • Leverages subject-matter expertise of cross-product features with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project managers) to implement multiple group's project plans, release plans, and work items.
            • Holds accountability as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI), leverage engineers across products/solutions, working on-call to monitor system/product/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions.
            • Proactively seeks new knowledge and adapts to new trends, technical solutions, and patterns that will improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while also driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale and shares knowledge with other engineers.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.
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