Software Engineer 2- Cloud Hardware Infrastructure Engineering

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At Microsoft, our cloud services’ infrastructure supports more than 1 billion customers and 20 million businesses around the world every day. We opened our first data center in 1989 and since then we have invested over $15 billion in our cloud infrastructure to support the growing customer demand for our cloud services. Do you want to be a part of Microsoft’s Cloud strategy? Are you looking to enhance your expertise and grow within a dynamic team of world-leading cloud professionals? If so, we would like to hear from you.

We are a part of the Cloud Hardware Infrastructure Engineering division (CHIE), responsible for all Microsoft Cloud hardware infrastructure product management system engineering. With the company’s strategy of Cloud first and laser focus on quality, we are actively looking for an experienced Software system engineer with strong technical strength and engineering methodology. This role will design and plan our end to end system integration process and will play a big part in building the next generation smart qualification pipeline with data learning and engineering excellence.

Successful candidate should have strong coding and debugging skills; should have experience building test plan and strategy. She or he must have excellent technical strength and strong system level trouble shooting skill and be able to articulate engineering solutions and impact. This position will need to work closely with global partners (both internal and external). Strong communication and collaboration skill are needed.

Successful candidate should have strong debugging and verification skill. Previous application of experience and understanding of Computer Architecture to come up with effective test strategy is required. Deep expertise in one or more server subsystems and system flows will be helpful. She or he should have successfully developed and driven verification technical strategy and execution, delivering product from inception to release.

Responsibilities

• Design verification and validation plan.
• Establish process to build model-based engineering workflow and to set clear expectation and timeline with partners.
• Plan, coordinate and drive effective and efficient CHIE (Cloud Hardware Infrastructure Engineering) hardware, commodity firmware update, and building block qualification efforts with collaboration with product groups and cross disciplines.
• Work with partner teams to push quality upstream. Establish qualification pipeline using agile engineering methodology with efficiency improvement metrics over time.
• Debug and analyze issues for root cause and to help identify preventive measure.
• Provide feedback loop to partner teams / product groups to push quality upstream.
• Interpret data to provide information to answer business questions in both meetings and reports. Demonstrate impact to business solutions.
  

Qualifications

• BS/ Master degree in Computer Engineering, Electrical engineering or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years’ system engineering experience.
• Product cycle experience overseeing project from inception to product shipping and sustain engineering.
• Strong debugging and technical problem solving skills, as well as a passion to solve hard, ambiguous problems. Experience with troubleshooting server system level issues.
• Experience working with software/hardware integration and debugging.
• Strong testing mentality and an eye for quality defects.
• Demonstrated capabilities in providing clarity and report presentation.
• Statistical analysis skill will be helpful. Six sigma training is a plus.
  

Demonstrated Hands On Experience In The Following

• Building and optimizing simulation, emulation, and/or verification environments, tools, flows, and methodologies
• System Integration, verification and validation for HW development, protocols, and related firmware.
• System debugging skill and server knowledge with good understanding of components interactions.
• Understanding of design for diagnosability and testability.
• Writing solid code with industry standard languages like Python or C/C++.
• Cloud services, Azure fabric, and protocols a plus
  

Microsoft is a highly innovative company that collaborates across disciplines to produce cutting edge cloud technology that changes our world. The Cloud Hardware Infrastructure Engineering (CHIE) team in Microsoft’s Azure C+E division is responsible for delivering server infrastructure for Microsoft’s online services. The hardware for operating these services, comprises of hundreds of thousands of servers spread globally and applications that reach hundreds of millions of users every day. Our customer-base is growing rapidly, our infrastructure investments are multiplying, and the size of our global infrastructure is increasing by the day - along with the scale of our challenges. Learn more about our team and projects here Azure Hardware Infrastructure

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