Senior Software Engineer

Microsoft is hiring a Senior Software Engineer for its Azure Core Network Interface Cards team. The role leads development and technical direction for SmartNIC and networking software, including high-performance networking, reliability, and performance improvements across Azure infrastructure.

Responsibilities:

• Lead development of next-generation Azure SmartNIC and networking software capabilities
• Drive architecture and technical execution for RDMA, virtualization, offload technologies, and high-performance networking scenarios
• Collaborate with hardware, firmware, silicon, and cloud service teams to deliver end-to-end platform innovations
• Define and drive reliability and performance improvements based on production telemetry and customer usage patterns
• Influence networking platform strategy and future technical investments

Requirements:

• 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, Java, or Python

• OR equivalent experience

• 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
• Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C++, C, Java, or Python

• OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C++, C, Java, or Python
• OR equivalent experience

• leading the technical design and delivery of complex engineering projects across multiple components or services
• designing scalable, maintainable, and highly available software architectures
• driving feature-area ownership, technical decision-making, and project execution with minimal oversight
• collaborating with multiple engineering teams to deliver cross-functional solutions
• troubleshooting, debugging, and root-cause analysis skills in production environments
• mentoring engineers and providing technical leadership through design and code reviews
• networking technologies including TCP/IP, RDMA, Ethernet, DPDK, SR-IOV, SmartNICs, or network virtualization
• Linux systems, kernel development, drivers, or performance-sensitive software
• building services for cloud-scale distributed systems
• hardware-software integration, firmware interactions, or platform infrastructure
• driving technical strategy and architecture across multiple teams
• operating and improving highly available services in production environments
• leading incident response efforts and driving systemic reliability improvements
• Knowledge of Azure networking, virtualization, storage networking, or high-performance computing workloads