Principal Software Engineer

Microsoft Silicon, Cloud Hardware, and Infrastructure Engineering (SCHIE) is the team behind Microsoft’s expanding Cloud Infrastructure and responsible for powering Microsoft’s “Intelligent Cloud” mission. SCHIE delivers the core infrastructure and foundational technologies for Microsoft's over 200 online businesses including Bing, MSN, Office 365, Xbox Live, Teams, OneDrive, and the Microsoft Azure platform globally with our server and data center infrastructure, security and compliance, operations, globalization, and manageability solutions. Our focus is on smart growth, high efficiency, and delivering a trusted experience to customers and partners worldwide and we are looking for passionate, high-energy engineers to help achieve that mission.

The Data Processing Unit (DPU) team brings together state-of-the-art software and hardware expertise to create a highly programmable and high-performance ASIC with the capability to efficiently handle large data streams. Thanks to its integrated design, this solution empowers teams to operate with increased agility and deliver significantly superior performance compared to CPU-based alternatives.

We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join our DPU Runtime Operating System team responsible for developing cutting edge, high-performance, scalable and programmable DPU software. We seek a system generalist that will focus on developing high performance operating systems and runtime components, supporting software, tools, and processes.

You will be spearheading efforts within our DPU Confidential Compute team, focusing on the development, maintenance, and review of software for the creation of advanced tools that ensure precise confidential computing system configurations from specification through deployment.

This role is also tasked with investigating the broader application of formal methods to enhance productivity and minimize manual effort.

You will bring your operating systems, and embedded development experience to contribute to DPU driver code and related host software and support. Your contributions will have a wide impact across Azure through the development of the latest generation DPU-based products.

Responsibilities

• Architect and design firmware and software for the DPU Runtime Operating System
• Develop, maintain and debug DPU issues, with a productivity boosting mindset.
• Design and implement improvements to make development and production debugging easier.
• Participate in code reviews and provide feedback to other developers
• Work closely with both Software and ASIC teams on co-development of next generation Silicon

Qualifications

Required

• 10+ years of C/C++ programming experience
• 5+ years of Embedded and/or Operating System software experience
• Understanding of Computer Architecture and Operating Systems
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Preferred

• 2+ years of experience developing multi-core CPU system and/or operating system code
• 2+ years of experience using gdb and JTag debugger and related debugs
• 2+ years of experience with modern CPU architecture for MIPS, Armsand/or hypervisor virtualization
• Experience with pre and post Silicon Software Development
• Experience with simulation and emulation
• Experience with deploying Software and/or Platforms at scale