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We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our team! Are you passionate about understanding how the components of a computing system work together? Do you get excited about learning, designing, and implementing the interaction between software and hardware across multiple systems? If you just jumped out of your seat in excitement, keep reading!

Join the Hyper-V Network Virtualization team and help shape the future of Azure. We are seeking a skilled and highly motivated software engineer to develop foundational, high-performance networking software on cutting-edge platforms in Azure. In this role, you will design, develop, and maintain kernel-level software components while collaborating with a diverse set of individuals across Windows and Azure.

In Core OS, we are responsible for the Operating Systems that power Azure, Microsoft's Linux OS, the platforms for Windows Client and Xbox, and our Windows Server ecosystem – through all of these, we support every one of our cloud businesses and billions of customers around the world. In this era of ubiquitous computing, systems software excellence has never been more important for Microsoft. High quality, high-efficiency operating systems and platform components underpin everything we do as a company, from making our systems more reliable for our customers by reducing Cost Of Goods Sold (COGS), to delivering new features and capabilities to delight customers – that’s all us!

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer, with demonstrated experience, to join our team!

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

• Design and develop features for large-scale distributed software systems and cutting-edge hardware.

• Write clean and optimized code, improve test coverage, organize, and implement integration tests, and resolve problem areas.

• Consider testability, portability/monitoring, reliability, and maintainability, and understand when code is ready to be shared and delivered.

• Identify dependencies, create, and drive sign-off of design document for a feature.

• Implement feature that meets existing coding standards and established patterns, with emphasis on reusing code where it makes sense.

• Focus on customer/partner needs through a data driven approach. 

• Develop “best-in-class” engineering for our tech stack by ensuring that the components are well-defined and modularized, secure, reliable, diagnosable, actively monitored and reusable.

Qualifications

Required/Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, or RUST

• OR equivalent experience.

• 3+ years of experience with multi-threaded / parallel programming.

• 3+ years of experience architecting and developing robust and extensible solutions.

Other Requirements:

• 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.

Additional or Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related technical field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, or Rust

• OR Master'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#, or Rust

• OR equivalent experience.

• 2+ years of experience in Open Source, Linux, and distributed systems.

• Experience of using Rust in a high-performance environment is a plus.

• Experience working with Windows, including demonstrated expertise in Windows internals, or kernel drivers, is a plus.

Software Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $117,200 - $229,200 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 $153,600 - $250,200 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 for the role until March 18, 2025.

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