Software Engineer II
 Microsoft | |
 United States, Texas, Irving | |
| 7000 State Highway 161 (Show on map) | |
 Oct 22, 2025 | |
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OverviewThe Microsoft Azure Host Networking and Hardware Acceleration team builds high-performance and reliable networking solutions for the cloud. This team has a history of transforming research projects into foundational Azure offerings that support global-scale workloads.As a Software Engineer II on the Network Interface Card (NIC) and Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) team, you will contribute to projects that move from incubation to production. Your work will involve distributed systems and technologies such as RDMA and input/output (I/O) virtualization, including delivering RDMA solutions optimized for artificial intelligence (AI) workloads. Responsibilities include designing for performance, implementing test methodologies, and collaborating on solutions that enhance scalability and reliability. This role offers opportunities to work on advanced networking technologies and accelerate innovation in cloud infrastructure. You will help build systems that improve efficiency and performance for Azure customers worldwide.Microsoft's mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.
ResponsibilitiesPartner with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a set of scenarios.Lead identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for a product, application, service, or platform.Work with peers to produce extensible and maintainable code used across products.Leverage knowledge of cross-product features with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project managers) to drive multiple group's project plans, release plans, and work items.Hold accountability as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI), mentoring engineers across products/solutions, working on-call to monitor system/product/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions.Proactively seek new knowledge and adapt to new trends, technical solutions, and patterns that will improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while also driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale and shares knowledge with other engineers. | |