Job Description

Senior Software Engineer

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Bangalore, Karnataka, India



Date posted

Oct 23, 2025

Job number

1901608

Work site

3 days / week in-office

Travel

0-25

%

Role type

Individual Contributor

Profession

Software Engineering

Discipline

Software Engineering

Employment type

Full-Time

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 Software Engineer to join our DPU Runtime (OS) team responsible for developing cutting edge, high-performance scalable and programmable DPU software with a focus on hardware accelerators driver software development. You will be a key contributor to our DPU software team. You will bring your OS and embedded development experience to contribute to DPU driver code in DPU Runtime OS. Your contributions will have a wide impact across Azure through the development of the latest DPU based generation of Compute and Storage server platforms.

Qualifications

Strong knowledge of one or more of C, C++ and Java programming languages Strong understanding of computer architecture and operating systems Strong understanding of complex embedded systems Good software architectural and design sense Good work ethic with "can do" attitude

Responsibilities

Design and development of software drivers for the DPU hardware accelerators. Development and support of the software for the DPU fabric subsystem. Write performance and stress test suites for the hardware accelerators and fabric subsystems. Develop, maintain and debug DPU low level software modules and debug tools Participate in code reviews and provide feedback to other developers
Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.
?Industry leading healthcare
?Educational resources
?Discounts on products and services
?Savings and investments
?Maternity and paternity leave
?Generous time away
?Giving programs
?Opportunities to network and connect
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