Senior Software Engineer - Networking / RDMA at Microsoft

Santa Clara, California, United States -

Full Time

Start Date

Immediate

Expiry Date

20 Feb, 26

Salary

0.0

Posted On

22 Nov, 25

Experience

5 year(s) or above

Remote Job

Yes

Telecommute

Yes

Sponsor Visa

Skills

C, C++, Networking Software, RDMA, Layer2, Layer3, Layer4, Ethernet, IP Networking, Packet Forwarding, Control Plane Processing, CI/CD, Scripting, Developer Tools, Performance Optimization, Mentorship

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 mentorship of 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 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++ OR equivalent experience. 2+ years of experience in developing networking software stack for RDMA forwarding or control plane functions 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 Experience in developing networking software on DPUs or programmable NICs or other hardware offload architectures. Experience in developing technologies for reliable data transfer across network with efficient fabric utilization and deterministic latency. CI/CD Experience: Knowledge of Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) practices for streamlined software development and deployment processes. Scripting for Developer Tools: Proficiency in scripting languages to build and enhance developer tools, automating repetitive tasks and improving workflow efficiency.

Responsibilities

The Senior Software Engineer will collaborate with stakeholders to translate business needs into technical solutions and drive the development of design documents. They will also optimize and debug code to improve performance and maintainability while mentoring fellow engineers.