Microsoft s Silicon Cloud Hardware and Infrastructure Engineering SCHIE organization is the backbone of our expanding cloud infrastructure powering the company s Intelligent Cloud vision SCHIE delivers the foundational technologies and infrastructure that support over 200 Microsoft services including Azure Office 365 Xbox Live Teams OneDrive Bing and more From data center architecture to security compliance and global operations SCHIE is committed to smart growth high efficiency and delivering trusted experience to customers and partners worldwide As part of this mission the Azure Software Firmware Center of Excellence is seeking passionate engineers to join the System Software Engineering Team This team plays a critical role in enabling innovative hardware solutions through robust performant and scalable system software We are looking for engineers who are excited to work at the intersection of software and firmware and who thrive in solving complex challenges that directly impact the performance and reliability of Azure s infrastructure In this role you will Develop and optimize device drivers and software services that interact with the device on both Windows and Linux platforms Collaborate with silicon hardware and platform teams to bring up recent hardware and ensure seamless integration Leverage AI and automation to improve development workflows fleet management and quality assurance Provide technical leadership and contribute to engineering excellence across the organization If you re passionate about systems programming hardware-software co-design and building the future of cloud infrastructure we invite you to join us in SCHIE and help shape the next generation of Microsoft s cloud platform Responsibilities Design implement and maintain system-level software components including device drivers and multithreaded services for Windows and or Linux platforms Collaborate with cross-functional teams including hardware firmware and platform teams to define and deliver integrated solutions Drive code quality through rigorous testing code reviews and continuous integration practices Investigate and resolve complex system-level issues including performance bottlenecks concurrency bugs and hardware-software integration challenges Qualifications Required 10 years of experience in system software development including device driver development on Windows or Linux Strong proficiency in C and or C with a deep understanding of memory management concurrency and performance optimization Experience with multithreaded programming and synchronization primitives Familiarity with kernel-mode and user-mode interactions debugging tools e g WinDbg GDB and hardware interfaces Experince with windows or Linux or both kernel mode driver development experience PCIe expertise would be bonus should also include debugging expertise windbg gdb Preferred Experience working with SoC platforms PCIe or other hardware interfaces Exposure to secure coding practices and system-level security concepts Familiarity with CI CD pipelines and automated testing frameworks like Boost Experience in scripting languages like Python Bash Contributions to open-source or internal platform libraries and tools GTA Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer Consistent with applicable law all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age ancestry citizenship color family or medical care leave gender identity or expression genetic information immigration status marital status medical condition national origin physical or mental disability political affiliation protected veteran or military status race ethnicity religion sex including pregnancy sexual orientation or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws regulations and ordinances If you need assistance and or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process read more about requesting accommodations

📌 Senior Software Engineer (Karnataka)
🏢 Microsoft
📍 Karnataka