Senior Software Engineer - DPU Integrations at Microsoft
Santa Clara, CA
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Jul 27, 2026
Santa Clara, CA
Jul 29, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior-level engineering role focused on building integration and diagnostics tooling, AI agents, and quality plans for DPU-based compute products. The position owns test plan execution, acts as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) for live-site incident response, and drives cross-functional root-cause analysis for field issues. It suits an experienced engineer with a background in embedded networking hardware (NICs/DPUs), cloud infrastructure, and large-scale data analysis.
Senior level · 6+ years
“or” means any one of them counts — you don't need all of them.
Posted 2 times — it's one opening, so apply once.
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How this req sits in the market our data
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $106,594 (middle half $82,076–$136,109).
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 29, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (7)
The role blends QA/test leadership (quality plans, test plan execution, release ownership) with hands-on software development (building integration and diagnostics tools, AI agents) and live-site SRE-style incident response. It was classified as 15-1253 because test ownership and quality planning are the stated primary responsibilities, but 15-1252 is a genuine runner-up given the build-and-deploy tooling work.
The 6+ years requirement is the dominant experience gate (lead engineer owning releases and mentoring a team); the 4+ years coding requirement is a secondary path gated on a Bachelor's degree. The overall years minimum is set to 6 accordingly.
The degree requirement is listed as 'Bachelor's Degree … OR equivalent experience', so the degree requirement is set to None.
C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, and Python are listed together as a coding-language requirement with 'including, but not limited to' language. C is emitted as the primary with C++ and Python also captured separately as they appear individually elsewhere in the posting context; C#, Java, and JavaScript are covered by the alternatives on the C skill entry.
DPU/IPU embedded software and NIC embedded software are listed as a single combined requirement in the posting ('NICs and/or DPUs/IPUs') but represent distinct hardware targets; they are emitted as separate skills for clarity.
'Telemetry/monitoring' and 'large-scale data analysis' are named capabilities explicitly required in the qualifications block but do not resolve to a single canonical tool name — they are retained as skills because the posting gates on them as concrete technical competencies.
Ignored 2 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): DPU/IPU embedded software, large-scale data analysis.
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