• Owns end-to-end reliability for Azure Storage hardware running in on-prem lab environments, including on-site work.
• Partners with silicon, firmware, BIOS, networking, and OS teams to enable and validate DPU hardware for specific storage use cases.
• Defines, measures, and improves Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and Service Level Indicators (SLIs) for DPU-accelerated storage scenarios within our lab.
• Leads live-site incident response and mitigation for hardware-, firmware-, or DPU-related issues, including deep root-cause analysis across hardware, firmware, and software boundaries.
• Builds automation for provisioning, configuration, validation, canarying, rollback, patching, and recovery of DPU-enabled Azure Storage systems in large internal labs.
• Creates and maintain operational runbooks, diagnostics, telemetry, and health models for DPU platforms in lab environments.
• Drives improvements in observability and alerting by extending Azure Monitor and internal systems with DPU- and hardware-level signals.
• Collaborates across hardware and software engineering teams to troubleshoot complex issues spanning networking, operating systems, storage infrastructure, and platform services.
• Supports platform bring-up, validation, and operational readiness activities for emerging hardware and infrastructure technologies.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline with proven experience coding in languages including, but not limited to, Powershell, Bash, or Python.
  • OR equivalent experience.

• 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:

• Experience with Fungible DPU technology or similar SmartNIC/DPU platforms.
• Experience working in lab, validation, or pre-production environments, including Microsoft MLS or equivalent environments.
• Experience enabling, troubleshooting, or operating systems across software, networking, hardware and firmware.
• Experience with infrastructure automation, infrastructure-as-code, deployment pipelines, or related technologies.

Software Engineering IC2 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $85,400 - $168,100 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 $111,100 - $183,700 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

This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.