Job Summary
Job Description –
Senior Software Engineer Overview:As a Senior Software Engineer in the DPU Integrations and Operational Excellence team, you will lead the development and deployment of automation solutions and intelligent agents supporting control and data plane software on custom DPU silicon. The role requires strong expertise in cloud platforms, networking, and system integrations to diagnose complex issues and enhance reliability at scale, contributing to the advancement of Azure’s large-scale cloud infrastructure.Preferred Qualifications:
6+ years of experience in test development, troubleshooting, and diagnostics of networking, storage, or cloud compute platforms.Experience with Azure or similar large-scale cloud infrastructure, including control plane, telemetry, monitoring, and reporting.
Proficiency in programming, preferably Python.
Experience in developing or testing embedded software for NICs, DPUs, or IPUs.Knowledge of networking concepts (TCP/IP, RoCEv2, routing/switching), SDN, and server firmware (BMC, BIOS) testing.
Expertise in complex debugging and issue resolution.
Experience in large-scale data analysis to identify patterns and root causes.
Exposure to AI-driven tools and agents for automation and analysis.
Key Responsibilities
Responsibilities:Design, build, test and deploy innovative integration and diagnostics tools, and AI agents to release quality products and reduce time to mitigate production issues.
Provides technical leadership to teams to identify the scope of testing to create a quality plan for DPU based compute products.
In partnership with key stakeholders creates and manages project schedules.
Leads the team by providing technical expertise and oversight, monitors test plan execution and quality to ensure that testing is efficient and executed according to plans.
Acts as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) and guides other engineers by developing and following the playbook, working on call to monitor system/product/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions, Alerting stakeholders about status and initiating actions to restore system/product/service for simple and complex problems when appropriate.
Guide and help debug field issues. Collaborate cross-functionally and drive debug sessions to arrive at root cause.
Maintain dashboards of live/dormant cases and KPIs.
Feedback learnings from field issues back into the engineering dev/test process.