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Software Development Engineer II

Microsoft Power Platform Community
Redmond, WA Full Time
POSTED ON 2/8/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 2/15/2025
Overview

As a Software Development Engineer II in the Host Networking and Hardware Acceleration team, you would be contributing to Azure host networking infrastructure, including hardware/software co-design optimized to provide reliable and performant network for Azure hosts, innovation to deliver RDMA (Remote Direct Memory Access) transport for Artificial Intelligence workloads.

You should have a passion for distributed systems, low level programming, understanding OS internals, virtualization, large scale system, performant design, test methodologies, and enjoy working on a fast-paced team who owns one of the most impacting services in the world.

Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

Responsibilities

  • Partners with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a set of scenarios.
  • Leads identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for a product, application, service, or platform.
  • Designs and implements extensible and maintainable code used across products.
  • Leverages subject-matter expertise of cross-product features with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project managers) to implement multiple group's project plans, release plans, and work items.
  • Holds accountability as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI), leverage engineers across products/solutions, working on-call to monitor system/product/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions.
  • 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 and shares knowledge with other engineers.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 2 years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C , Rust, or Python
    • OR equivalent experience.
  • 2 years of experience in low level driver development
  • 2 years of experience in software/hardware code design
Other Qualifications

  • 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 Qualifications

  • 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 , Rust, or Python
    • OR Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 2 years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C , Rust, or Python
    • OR equivalent experience.
  • 3 years experience in execution of complex cross-group, cross-disciplinary software engineering.
  • 3 years experience with cloud infrastructure technologies.
Software Engineering IC3 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $98,300 - $193,200 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $127,200 - $208,800 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

Microsoft will accept applications and processes offers for these roles on an ongoing basis.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form .

Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.

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