Senior Software Engineer

Microsoft

5 - 10 years

Bengaluru

Posted: 26/10/2025

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Job Description

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) Driver team responsible for developing cutting edge, high-performance scalable and programmable DPU software with a focus on Control Plane device drivers and associated user space tools. You will be a key contributor within our DPU driver software team. You will bring your Operating System, Driver, and Software Tooling Development experience to contribute to DPU driver code and related host software. Your contributions will have a wide impact across Azure through the development of the latest generation PCIe adapter cards.

Qualifications

Required

3+ years of C/C++ programming experience
3+ years of Embedded and/or Operating System Kernel development experience
3+ years of experience developing device drivers (for Linux or Windows)

Preferred

Experience with development in Rust
Experience with Operating System (Linux or Windows) configuration and deployment
Experience with ARM architecture
Experience with developing PCIe drivers and/or firmware

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.

Responsibilities

Architect and design Linux and/or Windows Control Plane device drivers for the DPU
Develop, maintain and debug host side Control Plane driver code and associated user space tooling
Develop, maintain and debug device side code within our custom FunOS
Participate in code reviews and provide feedback to other developers

About Company

Microsoft Corporation is a leading American multinational technology company founded in 1975 by Bill Gates and Paul Allen. Headquartered in Redmond, Washington, Microsoft is best known for its software products, including the Windows operating system, Microsoft Office Suite, and Azure cloud services. The company also produces hardware like the Surface devices and owns LinkedIn, GitHub, and the Xbox gaming brand. Microsoft is one of the world's most valuable companies, playing a key role in personal computing, enterprise software, AI, and cloud computing.