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Imagine being at the forefront of transformative cloud technology. Our team is pioneering management of Kubernetes clusters at hyperscale, building efficient and safe tools for managing millions of servers that power the Azure Kubernetes Service.

As a Senior Software Engineer in the Azure Kubernetes Service Platform Infrastructure team, you will dive into the world of automated infrastructure management and server orchestration at a scale few other companies are dealing with, while building and maintaining the compute infrastructure that powers the Azure Kubernetes Service. This role offers you a unique opportunity to accelerate your career growth, develop a deep understanding of cloud technology, and master the intricacies of hyperscale infrastructure management. You'll be instrumental in making it possible for the Azure Kubernetes Service to function as the most high-performance and always-available managed Kubernetes service in the world.

Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain tools written in Go that create and manipulate hundreds of thousands of virtual machines that power the Azure Kubernetes Service.

• Contribute to the reliability and performance of the Azure Kubernetes Service.

• Accelerate the development velocity for all engineers by improving our infrastructure stack to make it self-contained and runnable on anything from localhost to the datacenter.

• Balance pragmatism with vision and creativity; deliver continuous improvements to the team’s process and codebase.

• Build tools, automation, and safety mechanisms to prevent infrastructure problems from becoming production incidents.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND significant technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, Go, Rust, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python, OR

• Significant experience in building, shipping, and operating reliable infrastructure platforms.

• Significant experience managing compute infrastructure with a cloud infrastructure provider such as Azure or similar (e.g. AWS, Google Cloud).

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:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science

• OR

• related technical field AND technical engineering background with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Python

• OR Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python

• OR equivalent experience.

• Proficient with Linux or similar Unix-like environments used on servers (e.g. BSD) and comfortable working with primarily command-line tools for Linux system administration, diagnostics, and debugging.

• Experience with Kubernetes and the wider Cloud Native / Container ecosystem.

• Experience collaborating, building, and maintaining medium and large Go programs that are actively developed by many other engineers.

• Experience with backend services, distributed systems, and concepts like consensus protocols.

• Experience with query languages such Kusto Query Language (or similar) that can be used to analyze vast volumes of ingested analytics data to find, diagnose, and debug issues.

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