Microsoft

Software Engineer

United States, Washington, Redmond

Sponsorship not specified$85k-$168kDetected 14 hours ago

BashPowerShellAzureIncident Response

About the role

Azure Storage is the core storage foundation for Azure, providing over 100 exabytes of capacity across thousands of storage clusters in datacenters worldwide, powering millions of Azure services and workloads.
This role focuses on safe bring-up, validation, and scaled production operation of DPU-enabled platforms, bridging hardware, firmware, software reliability, and maintenance.
This role works across hardware, firmware, operating systems, networking, and software layers to enable next-generation Azure Storage platforms.

Partners with silicon, firmware, BIOS, networking, and OS teams to enable and validate DPU hardware for specific storage use cases.
Leads live-site incident response and mitigation for hardware-, firmware-, or DPU-related issues, including deep root-cause analysis across hardware, firmware, and software boundaries.
Builds automation for provisioning, configuration, validation, canarying, rollback, patching, and recovery of DPU-enabled Azure Storage systems in large internal labs.
Drives improvements in observability and alerting by extending Azure Monitor and internal systems with DPU- and hardware-level signals.
Collaborates across hardware and software engineering teams to troubleshoot complex issues spanning networking, operating systems, storage infrastructure, and platform services.
Supports platform bring-up, validation, and operational readiness activities for emerging hardware and infrastructure technologies.
You will collaborate with engineers across multiple disciplines to improve reliability, drive automation, enhance observability, and support the deployment and operation of DPU-enabled storage systems at scale.

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline with proven experience coding in languages including, but not limited to, Powershell, Bash, or Python. - OR equivalent experience.
Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role.
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline with proven experience coding in languages including, but not limited to, Powershell, Bash, or Python.
This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Experience with Fungible DPU technology or similar SmartNIC/DPU platforms.
Experience working in lab, validation, or pre-production environments, including Microsoft MLS or equivalent environments.
Experience enabling, troubleshooting, or operating systems across software, networking, hardware and firmware.
Experience with infrastructure automation, infrastructure-as-code, deployment pipelines, or related technologies.
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This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer.

Creates and maintain operational runbooks, diagnostics, telemetry, and health models for DPU platforms in lab environments.

equal opportunity employer.
If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the

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

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