Overview

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 DevOps Engineer/Senior Build engineer to join our DPU Build and Tools team responsible for developing Build and Test infrastructure and associated tools. You will be a key contributor within our DPU Build and Tools team. You will bring your DevOps: (Operating System/Cloud, Software build, CI/CD) experience to contribute to DPU Build and tools infrastructure and related software. Your contributions will have a wide impact across Azure through the development of the latest generation PCIe adapter cards.

Responsibilities

As a DPU Build&Tools Engineer you will be responsible for the following:

Build Infra

Develop and maintain build and test infrastructure.

Develop and maintain build pipelines for DPU software

Plan for longer-term requirements for both build hardware and access to prototype and working Azure systems

Help team move existing build and test infrastructure toward Azure processes and platforms while keeping existing hardware and software development making rapid progress

Improve Development productivity by build optimization, tools development

Test infra

Integrate build with a test infrastructure that allows DPU engineers to test their code on emulators and pre-production silicon/systems

Keep test infrastructure and machine fleets running while continuously improving reliability and reducing maintenance burden

Work with engineering teams to identify future requirements for infrastructure, machines, and test frameworks

Qualifications

Required

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline

6+ years of technical engineering experience in DevOps, in a build engineer capacity

C/C++ environment

Embedded system/firmware

3+ years of experience working with software build, build pipelines and processes in Cloud environments (Azure preferred)

3+ years of experience with embedded systems

2+ years of experience working in projects related to tooling, automation and test frameworks/infrastructure, in a SWE capacity.

Coding with python

Preferred

Experience in OS kernel building, driver building

Knowledge of infra mgmt (cloud as well) networking, storage, embedded systems, or operating systems (Windows, Linux)

Multiplatform builds

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.

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.

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