Principal Software Engineer- Networking at Microsoft

Santa Clara, California, United States -

Full Time

Start Date

Immediate

Expiry Date

03 Mar, 26

Salary

0.0

Posted On

03 Dec, 25

Experience

5 year(s) or above

Remote Job

Yes

Telecommute

Yes

Sponsor Visa

Skills

Software Engineering, Networking, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Python, Layer2, Layer3, Layer4, Packet Forwarding, Control Plane, CI/CD, Data Center Switch, Programmable NIC, DPU

Industry

Software Development

Description

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. 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. 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

Responsibilities

Collaborate with stakeholders to translate business needs into technical solutions and drive clarity across teams. Act as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) to monitor systems and guide other engineers in maintaining performance and reliability.