Software Development Engineer II

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.

As Microsoft's cloud business continues to grow the ability to deploy new offerings and hardware infrastructure on time, in high volume with high quality and lowest cost is of paramount importance. The Cloud AI & Advanced Systems Engineering (CAASE) team creates innovative platforms and solutions at planet scale, including Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA), custom computing and AI accelerators, and storage and network accelerators. 

We are looking for a Software Development Engineer II to join the CAASE development team. You will develop tools and system services that monitor and manage our custom hardware accelerators in the Azure fleet.  You will help enable specialized acceleration and customized offloading hardware in our servers in partnership with multiple teams across Microsoft. The software components you deliver include system software and cloud services that monitor, deploy and maintain cutting edge acceleration hardware in the Azure fleet at massive scale. This will involve running high-scale services with an always secure and livesite-first mindset. 

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

• Develop libraries, CLI tools and system services to monitor & manage CAASE’s custom accelerators, for both Windows and Linux 

• Rapid cloud scale deployment of software, monitoring of telemetry 

• Design, develop and operate large scale, efficient and reliable cloud services 

• Support our customers by debugging complex multisystem problems, implementing and deploying solutions  

• Work on complex, mission critical solutions that involve multiple Azure Services and a high degree of collaboration  

• Participate in on-call coverage rotation, troubleshoot application issue and apply mitigations 

• Drive continuous improvement on service quality and efficiency 

Embody our Culture and Values

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++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python

o OR equivalent experience.