Microsoft Senior Software Engineer 

Canada, Ontario, Ottawa 

433069875

As part of our team, you will work on the best of distributed systems technology, you will design and build the central management and the agent services that implement the control plane policies on the end hosts. As a Senior Software Engineer, you will help modernize appliances that provide Gateway and Load balancer functionality to be performant and cross platform, usinglatest technologies such as eBPF (extended Berkeley Packet Filter) and DPDK (Data Plane Development Kit).You will build new sets of functionalities that meet the customers’ demands for performance, scale, distributed management, sophisticated support for Kubernetes, etc.

Required Qualifications

• 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
• OR equivalent experience.
• 1+ years of building distributed systems that are reliable and work at scale.
• 3+ years of experience building kernel drivers using C/C++.

Other Requirements:

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.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Dedicated coding, debugging, testing, and problem-solving skills
• Dedicated communication and collaboration skills
• Competent understanding of systems software
• Proficient design and implementation skills using C#, Java, or C++
• Experience with networking protocols and architecture is a plus
• Experience with scripting languages

Software Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across Canada is CAD $108,100 - CAD $199,700 per year.

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• Design and implement appliances that are cross platform, based on technologies such as eBPF and DPDK
• Design and implement partitioning and scaling out capability of micro services.
• Add RESTful APIs for our SDN API surface.
• Add new microservices and learn to extend data models where state needs to be preserved.
• Use modern frameworks such as gRPC to exchange data and ensure consistency.
• Design and implement test harnesses to push scale limits and measure performance and reliability.
• Embody our