Sr. Hardware Engineer – Debug

Bangalore, Karnataka, India

Date posted

Aug 13, 2025

Job number

1860037

Work site

Up to 50% work from home

Travel

0-25%

Role type

Individual Contributor

Profession

Hardware Engineering

Discipline

Hardware Engineering

Employment type

Full-Time

Microsoft Silicon, Cloud Hardware, and Infrastructure Engineering (SCHIE) is the team behind Microsoft's expanding Cloud Infrastructure and responsible for powering Microsoft's "Intelligent Cloud" mission. SCHIE delivers the core infrastructure and foundational technologies for Microsoft's over 200 online businesses including Bing, MSN, Office 365, Xbox Live, Teams, OneDrive, and the Microsoft Azure platform globally with our server and data center infrastructure, security and compliance, operations, globalization, and manageability solutions. Our focus is on smart growth, high efficiency, and delivering trusted experience to customers and partners worldwide and we are looking for passionate, high-energy engineers to help achieve that mission.

As Microsoft's cloud business continues to grow, the ability to deploy new offerings and hardware infrastructure on time, in high volume with high quality and lowest cost is of paramount importance. To achieve this goal, the Hardware, Infrastructure Management, and Fundamentals Engineering (HIFE) team is instrumental in defining and delivering operational measures of success for hardware manufacturing, improving the planning process, quality, delivery, scale and sustainability related to Microsoft cloud hardware. We are looking for seasoned engineers with a dedicated passion for customer focused solutions, insight, and industry knowledge to envision and implement future technical solutions that will manage and optimize the Cloud infrastructure.

We are looking for a Senior Hardware Engineer - Debug - to join the team.

Required Qualifications:

• 10+ years of technical experience as a platform architect or validation architect or a lead debug engineer or equivalent industry experience.

• Deep understanding of modern server architectures – Memory or CPU or storage or system level firmware.

• Capable of technical deep dives into platform design, verification flows, operating systems, networking, and storage.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Platform Debug and validation experience.

• Data analytical skills- Knowing how to use data based and analytical tools.

• Excellent communication skills using various forms of media.

• Able to plan work, and work to a plan adapting as necessary in a rapidly evolving Environment.

• Individual effectiveness skills such as discipline, time management, decision making, planning, and organizing work, summarizing results through technical reports.

• Self-driven, self-motivated individual must be able work independently as well as collaboratively in a team environment and across the team of engineers.

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.

• Lead E2E @scale system level debug activities in the cluster to meet fleet KPIs.
• Collaborate with hardware, firmware, and software teams to enable comprehensive root cause analysis.
• Accountable to meet debug/ triage SLA.
• Provide priority to issues based on technical and business understanding of both complexity & impact.
• Identify, drive execution and E2E verification plans to proactively address open issues.
• Develop best in class debug methodologies, test strategies and platform validation plan for the at-scale clusters.
• Solve problems relating to mission critical services and develop automation to drive debug efficiency.
• Collaborate with internal and external partners to ensure systems meet significant quality, reliability, and service level requirements for a cloud environment.
• Effectively communicate with partners and stakeholders for planning and progress on initiatives using data.

Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.

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Industry leading healthcare

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Educational resources

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Discounts on products and services

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Savings and investments

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Maternity and paternity leave

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Generous time away

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Giving programs

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Opportunities to network and connect

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.