Software Development Engineer

** 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, One Drive, 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 engineers to help achieve that mission.

The team partners across hardware, firmware, software, and operations to improve cloud infrastructure availability and enable next-generation systems. Microsoft also contributes to industry efforts such as Project Olympus and the Open Compute Project to accelerate open hardware innovation.

We are looking for a highly motivated  
** Software Development Engineer
** to build and operate large-scale cloud infrastructure systems that power Azure. In this role, you will design and develop software that manages and monitors cloud hardware across hyperscale environments, driving improvements in reliability, availability, and performance.

You will work across the full stack-from low-level Linux-based device software to cloud-scale service orchestration-enabling intelligent decision-making on hardware health signals and improving overall cloud hardware availability and performance. This role provides an opportunity to influence next-generation datacenter architecture and contribute to industry ecosystems such as the Open Compute Project, aligning with Microsoft's open hardware innovation strategy

** Responsibilities*
* + Design, develop, and maintain Linux-based service and device management stack using C, C++, Python, and systems programming languages.

+ Build and optimize distributed systems and cloud services for monitoring and managing hardware at hyperscale.

+ Implement hardware interface programming (SPI, I2C, GPIO, UART) and support board bring-up, firmware, and Linux boot flows including U-Boot and kernel integration.

+ Develop and enhance device telemetry, health monitoring, hardware health signal processing, and automated remediation workflows.

+ Drive live-site excellence through monitoring, debugging, root cause analysis, repair loops, and continuous service reliability improvements.

+ Collaborate with hardware, firmware,  platform, and partner teams to deliver end-to-end solutions across hardware-software boundaries.

+ Translate customer and production feedback into feature enhancements, bug fixes, reliability improvements, and supportability investments.

+ Leverage and contribute to open-source ecosystems such as OCP and Linux where appropriate, bringing relevant practices into Microsoft platforms.

** 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 OR equivalent experience.

Other Requirements:

Ability to meet Microsoft, customer, and/or government security screening requirements is required for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to, specialized security screenings such as the 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:

+ Ph.D. in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or…