Principal Software Engineer - Kubernetes

Microsoft Azure Edge + Platform (E+P) is a globally distributed team of engineers, architects, program managers, product managers, business program managers, business administrators, user experience researchers and designers who are responsible for the platform for Microsoft and for delivering Microsoft’s edge vision. We create the most reliable and trustworthy OS and platform services to empower Microsoft and our customers to achieve more. We unlock the next wave of opportunity at the edge through an at-scale ecosystem driving widespread adoption of our Microsoft cloud services. 

Join us. Make an impact. We are the Sky team and have the mandate and opportunity to: 

Empower Microsoft Cloud teams and their customers to easily deliver high-quality services using standard cloud architecture and infrastructure. 

We understand that driving meaningful impact means empowering and enabling our customers to achieve more. Driven by customer needs, we are fueling investments in standardized cloud architecture and infrastructure to build a solid foundation that gives customers an excellent experience with our products. Our portfolio includes projects that span the entirety of Microsoft’s cloud ecosystem. You will partner on projects across different areas like containerization, security, large-scale distributed systems, reliability, distributed computing, observability, etc.  

Sky is a talented, diverse, and supportive organization that celebrates development and learning. We pride ourselves on embracing a growth mindset to pursue technical excellence. We value collaboration and craftsmanship to drive results that move the needle for our customers. We engineer elegant solutions to complex problems. We encourage an informal and flexible work environment, and you are welcome to work from home, or in our offices - wherever you can do your best work. 

Required Qualifications:   

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND 4+ years technical experience in software engineering, network engineering, service engineering, or systems engineering
  • OR equivalent experience. 

• 4+ years of experience in software development coding an object-oriented, strongly typed programming language such as C#, C++, or Go. 

• 4+ years of experience with Cloud Native technologies including containers, Go, and Kubernetes 

• Ability to participate in a period, global 24x7 on-call rotation.  

Other Requirements

• Background Check: 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: 

• Experience operating a large-scale Kubernetes environment (10’s of clusters) which hosts multiple applications.  

• Knowledge of Kubernetes networking configurations and security best practices. 

• Awareness of, and ability to reason about, modern software & systems architectures, including load-balancing, queueing, caching, distributed systems failure modes, and microservices. 

• Strong understanding of computer science, including data structures and algorithms 

• Experience designing, building, and troubleshooting complex software systems. 
  • Demonstrable ability to own and deliver software projects, particularly through technical leadership of other engineers. 

• Willingness and ability to respectfully challenge the status quo, using negotiation and collaboration to influence others across organizational silos.

Service Engineering IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $137,600 - $267,000 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $180,400 - $294,000 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until January 30th, 2024. 
 

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As a Kubernetes focused Principal Software Engineer on the Sky team, you will have the incredible opportunity to work on business-critical initiatives that directly contribute to the future of Microsoft’s   business. You must be deeply technical, collaborative, and experienced with Kubernetes, and able to ramp up in new areas quickly since your responsibilities will span all areas of Azure’s business as well as all layers of the cloud technology stack.  

In this role you will leverage your Kubernetes expertise to lead the design and implementation of solutions that deliver reliability, security and compliance fundamentals to Microsoft’s internal cloud native services. This will require working with stakeholders across the company to define the long and short-term product strategy in collaboration with upstream and downstream dependent Program Management and Engineering teams. You will also be a key component of fostering our engineering culture for standardized solutions with a quality focus.