Microsoft · 18 hours ago
Principal Software Engineer- Networking
Santa Clara, CA
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$140K/yr - $275K/yr
6+ years expMicrosoft is a leading technology company focused on expanding its Cloud Infrastructure through the Silicon, Cloud Hardware, and Infrastructure Engineering team. They are seeking a Principal Software Engineer to collaborate with stakeholders, drive technical solutions, and enhance the performance and maintainability of cloud infrastructure software.
Agentic AIApplication Performance ManagementArtificial Intelligence (AI)Business DevelopmentDevOpsInformation ServicesInformation TechnologyManagement Information SystemsNetwork SecuritySoftware
Responsibilities
Collaborate with stakeholders to understand business needs and translate them into technical requirements and solutions
Work across team and organizational boundaries to drive clarity and alignment
Drives identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for a product, application, service, or platform
Drives, creates, implements, optimizes, debugs, refactors, and reuses code to establish and improve performance and maintainability, effectiveness, and return on investment (ROI)
Conduct research, stay updated with the latest industry trends, and experiment with cutting-edge technologies to drive innovation
Leverages subject-matter expertise of product features and partners with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project managers) to drive a workgroup's project plans, release plans, and work items
Acts as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) and guides other engineers by developing and following the playbook, working on call to monitor system/product/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions, alerting stakeholders about status and initiates actions to restore system/product/service for simple and complex problems when appropriate
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
Coaching and mentoring fellow team members
Effective communication skills and a passion for delivering scalable solutions through a diverse team of engineers
Qualification
Required
Bachelor'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++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience
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
4+ years of experience in software design and coding of Layer2/L3/L4 ethernet/IP networking data plane packet forwarding and control plane processing functions within a programmable NIC or network switches and routers or an architecture with hardware offload
4+ years of programming experience in C
Knowledge of L2/L3/L4 networking packet forwarding functions within a programmable NIC or Data center switch
Experience implementing or knowledge in networking solutions for the high scale AI networking
Experience in developing software support for the networking data path or control plane within a programmable NIC or Data center switch
Experience in developing networking software on DPUs or programmable NICs or other hardware offload architectures
CI/CD Experience: Knowledge of Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) practices for streamlined software development and deployment processes
Benefits
Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.
Company
Microsoft
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