Site Reliability Engineer

Microsoft • Redmond, WA

20h

About The Position

The Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) for Azure xDPU Storage Team – Hardware Enablement is responsible for ensuring the reliability, availability, and performance of Fungible DPU based Azure Storage devices as they integrate next-generation networking and compute offload hardware. This role focuses on safe bring-up, validation, and scaled production operation of DPU-enabled platforms, bridging hardware, firmware, and software reliability and maintenance.
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Requirements

• Associate's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field
• OR equivalent experience.
• 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.

Nice To Haves

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field AND 2+ years technical experience in software engineering, network engineering, or systems administration
• OR equivalent experience.
• Experience operating large-scale, distributed systems in a lab/validation.
• Experience working close to hardware, including networking, storage, or accelerator technologies such as SmartNICs, DPUs, or offload engines.
• Proficiency in one or more programming or scripting languages (C++, C#, Python, Go, or PowerShell); with experience reading lower-level system code.
• Hands-on experience with Microsoft and Azure lab infrastructure and live-site operations
• Demonstrated understanding of networking, operating systems, and performance characteristics of I/O-intensive distributed systems.
• Direct experience with Fungible DPU technology or similar SmartNIC/DPU platforms.
• Existing hands-on experience working in Microsoft MLS (Microsoft Lab Services) or equivalent internal lab environments, including lab-based hardware validation, performanc testing, and bring-up workflows.
• Experience enabling new hardware platforms or accelerators in a Windows/mixed OS environment.
• Familiarity with firmware lifecycles, hardware validation, and silicon bring-up processes.
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD pipelines (ARM/Bicep, Terraform, Azure DevOps).

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end reliability for Azure Storage hardware running in on-prem lab environments.
• Partner with silicon, firmware, BIOS, networking, and OS teams to enable and validate DPU hardware for specific storage use cases.
• Define, measure, and improve Service Level Objectives (SLOs), Service Level Indicators (SLIs) for DPU-accelerated storage scenarios within our lab and pre-prod environments.
• Lead live-site incident response and mitigation for hardware-, firmware-, or DPU-related issues, including deep root-cause analysis across hardware/software boundaries within our lab and pre-prod environments.
• Build automation for provisioning, configuration, validation, canarying, rollback, patching, and recovery of DPU-enabled Azure Storage systems within our lab and pre-prod environments.
• Develop reliability validation strategies, including stress, fault-injection, and chaos testing for DPU hardware enablement and management.
• Create and maintain operational runbooks, diagnostics, telemetry, and health models specific to Fungible DPU platforms within our lab and pre-prod environments.
• Drive improvements in observability and alerting by extending Azure Monitor and internal systems with DPU- and hardware-level signals.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: Associate degree