Microsoft Azure Host Networking and Hardware Acceleration team is building a performant and highly reliable cloud network. The team has a track record of turning interesting research projects into highly successful foundational Azure offerings. We are seeking candidates who love problem solving, designing innovative new architectures, and enjoy thinking outside of the box. Join us as a Senior Software Engineer to build the fastest and largest public cloud and make a difference to millions of people across the planet. As a Senior Software Engineer in the NIC and RDMA team, you would be contributing from an incubation effort into production, where distributed systems meet technologies like Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA), Single Root Input Output Virtualization (SRIOV), including delivering innovative RDMA solutions for AI and Storage workloads. You should have a passion for performance-focused low-level development, proving out solutions through extensive testing and experimentation, and enjoy working on a fast-paced 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.Required/Minimum Qualifications:<ul><li>Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, Rust, C++, or Python<ul><li>OR equivalent experience in RDMA or Hardware-Software codesign.</li></ul></li><li>3+ years of experience in management of complex cross-group, cross-disciplinary software engineering</li><li>3+ years of experience with cloud infrastructure technologies, and leading engineering teams </li></ul>Other Requirements: <ul><li>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:  </li><ul><li>Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter. </li></ul></ul> Additional or Preferred Qualifications:<ul><li>Bachelors Degree in Computer Science OR related technical field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, Rust, C++, or Python<ul><li>OR Masters Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, Rust, C++, or Python</li><li>OR equivalent experience.</li></ul></li><li>2+ years of technical experience with RDMA, computer networking, and general cloud technologies is preferred</li></ul>Software Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $119,800 - $234,700 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 $158,400 - $258,000 per year. Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: <a href="https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay" target="_blank">https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay</a> Microsoft will accept applications for the role until August 27, 2025.  Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances.  We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the <a href="https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/accommodationrequest" target="_blank">Accommodation request form</a>. Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.#azurecorejobs<ul><li>Partner with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a set of scenarios.</li><li>Lead identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for a product, application, service, or platform.</li><li>You will lead by example and mentor others to produce extensible and maintainable code used across products.</li><li>Leverage subject-matter expertise of cross-product features with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project managers) to drive multiple groups project plans, release plans, and work items.</li><li>Hold accountability as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI), mentoring engineers across products/solutions, working on-call to monitor system/product/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions.</li><li>Proactively seek new knowledge and adapt to new trends, technical solutions, and patterns that will improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while also driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale and shares knowledge with other engineers.</li><li>You will embody our culture and values.</li></ul>