Are you interested in helping secure the Internet of Things? 9 billion MCU-based devices are shipped every year, and our team is building a turn-key, end-to-end secure platform for IoT. Thousands of businesses are currently undergoing a digital transformation to connect their MCU-based devices to the internet, and our goal is to securely enable this transition.

We're looking for engineers to join the Azure Sphere Lifecycle and Networking (LAN) team. We’d like someone to focus on developing and supporting the Azure Sphere Operating System’s various networking and connectivity options. As a team member you'll help us define and build the software to enable differing connectivity options, starting from functionality in the kernel, and ending with customer-facing APIs.

Come join us! Team members have unparalleled opportunity to rapidly learn new skill sets, build pioneering solutions, and get exposure to a wide array of technologies. To learn more about this exciting new project, please visit www.microsoft.com/en-us/azure-sphere.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and support new networking and connectivity options.
• Build solutions to enable customers to specify and configure networking options.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to grow junior members of the team. Build software prototypes and conduct experiments to evaluate alternative architectures.
• Take end-to-end responsibility for the development, quality, diagnosability, and testing of the software you build.

Qualifications

Required

• 5 or more years of software design and development experience.
• A bachelor's degree in computer science or computer engineering, OR an additional 4 years' work experience.
• Experience developing production software using C or C++.
• 5 or more years of experience designing and developing networking functionality.
   

Preferred

• Experience designing, developing and shipping network functionality in an operating system.
• Experience developing, designing or debugging networking protocols.
• Experience developing for one or more ARM based System on a Chip (SoC) platforms.
• Experience developing on Linux.
• Experience as an engineering manager is a plus.

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.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances.  We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.

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