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.   

A major factor in the quality, as experienced by our customers, is the quality of the infrastructure that is running the cloud. Silicon Cloud Hardware Infrastructure Engineering (SCHIE) is a fast-growing R&D organization that designs, engineers and qualifies the entire cloud-optimized infrastructure, including advanced Compute and Storage server technology that push the technological.   

We are looking for a Principal Software Engineer to join the team! 

Our team – CRC (Cloud Readiness Certified), within SCHIE, drives the hardware, firmware and infrastructure software validation lifecycle and is accountable for the quality experience of our cloud customers. Our goal is to exceed customer expectations in every aspect related to infrastructure quality. Therefore, we focus heavily on automating the validation processes from inception and throughout the entire h/w lifecycle. We invest in systems that continuously monitor the hardware quality in production, predict hardware failures, detect behavioral anomalies, and mitigate issues before they impact customers. Our mission is to ensure a consistent high quality of production hardware through automation and smart engineering that can scale as fast as the cloud business grows. Our work is making a real impact on millions of users!  

The candidate for this position will have extensive experience designing models for qualifying advanced hardware systems and will also have experience developing software automation related. We offer exciting challenges, and a fun place to work. This is an opportunity to work with world-class engineers. Apply now for this unique green field opportunity! 

Responsibilities

• Be part of the concept design discussions, gather node/rack system level requirements, clarify interfaces, provide feedback into future design requirements to help develop robust cloud hardware validation strategies. 

• Gather all the software engineering automation requirements for validating cloud hardware systems by working with engineering groups and other stakeholders.  

• Work with ODMs, other system engineers, internal design teams and customers to develop validation execution plans for new technologies and MSFT IP features. 

• Write software automation for different qualification phases of programs. 

• Work with ODMs, Silicon vendors, component suppliers and internal design teams on cross-boundary triaging, debugging, and resolving issues. 

• Review automation validation coverage throughout the lifecycle of the program and publish plan vs. progress reports. 

• Collaborate with internal and external partners to ensure systems meet significant quality, reliability, and service level requirements for a cloud environment. 

• Architect cloud test scenarios and guide software engineers to automate test flows. 
• Embody our Culture