Senior Software Engineer - Networking Control Plane

11/22/2025

The Senior Software Engineer collaborates with stakeholders to determine user requirements and drives the development of design documents. They create, implement, optimize, and debug code while guiding other engineers and monitoring system performance.

Working Hours

40 hours/week

Company Size

10,001+ employees

Language

English

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About The Company

Every company has a mission. What's ours? To empower every person and every organization to achieve more. We believe technology can and should be a force for good and that meaningful innovation contributes to a brighter world in the future and today. Our culture doesn’t just encourage curiosity; it embraces it. Each day we make progress together by showing up as our authentic selves. We show up with a learn-it-all mentality. We show up cheering on others, knowing their success doesn't diminish our own. We show up every day open to learning our own biases, changing our behavior, and inviting in differences. Because impact matters. Microsoft operates in 190 countries and is made up of approximately 228,000 passionate employees worldwide.

About the Role

Collaborates with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a scenario. Drives identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for a product, application, service, or platform. Creates, implements, optimizes, debugs, refactors, and reuses code to establish and improve performance and maintainability, effectiveness, and return on investment (ROI). Leverages subject-matter expertise of product features and partners with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project managers) to drive a workgroup's project plans, release plans, and work items. Acts as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) and guides other engineers by developing and following the playbook, working on call to monitor system/product/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions, alerting stakeholders about status and initiates actions to restore system/product/service for simple and complex problems when appropriate. Proactively seeks new knowledge and adapts 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. Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience. Experience in RUST programming Knowledge of Networking Packet forwarding plane functions within a programmable NIC or Data center switch Experience in networking telemetry implementation within a programmable NIC or Data center switch Experience in developing software servicing support for the control plane within a programmable NIC or Data center switch Experience in developing networking software on DPUs or programmable NICs or other hardware offload architectures CI/CD Experience: Knowledge of Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) practices for streamlined software development and deployment processes Scripting for Developer Tools: Proficiency in scripting languages to build and enhance developer tools, automating repetitive tasks and improving workflow efficiency.

Key Skills

CC++C#JavaJavaScriptPythonRUSTNetworkingTelemetryControl PlaneDPUsNICsCI/CDScriptingAutomationPerformance