Principal Software Engineer - Kubernetes

Edge Infrastructure Engineering is a globally distributed team responsible for the expanding development and operation of Microsoft’s edge platform by extending Azure’s cloud capabilities to on-premises, multi-cloud, and edge environments, simplifying the management of scaled infrastructure and Kubernetes clusters. By projecting bare metal servers and Kubernetes clusters into Azure Resource Manager, customers can easily manage configurations and applications, enable monitoring and security, and deploy 1st and 3rd party applications and AI. We are looking fo a Principal Software Engineer to join our group.

In this role, you will work across teams and organizations of software engineers to innovate, engineer, and deliver Edge solutions including but not limited to deployment of on-premises computing clusters with Azure control plane in support of edge computing scenarios across industries and use-cases including AI, industrial transformation, retail, 5G + telecoms and financial.  

You will use your knowledge and expertise to contribute to one of our domain areas (Azure core services, Arc, Azure Kubernetes Service, Monitoring, Storage, Engineering Systems) of the platform and design and develop solutions to enhance our edge cloud infrastructure with speed, scale, quality, resilience and security. 

Required/Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to GoLang.
  • OR equivalent experience.
• 4+ years experience in Kubernetes, creating Custom Resources and Operators
• 3+ years experience with GoLang 

Other Requirments:

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 in building, shipping and operating reliable, distributed systems software   
• Ability to engage in site-reliability engineering practices   
• Knowledge of secure development practices and maintaining project compliance   
• Experience in troubleshooting and remediating issues in production systems  
• Experience leading and mentoring engineers 
• Experience designing and architecting scaled components 
• Experience in one or more of the following Areas:  
  • Microsoft Azure core services  
  • Networking, Storage, and Compute (including virtualization)  
  •  Platform Monitoring, Logging and Alerting   
  •  CI/CD (Continuous Integration/ Continuous Delivery) to automate delivery stages with pipelines and control promotion with quality gates  
  •  Linux Operating systems  
  • Kubernetes Cluster API (CAPI) and Providers 
  •  Cybersecurity with a focus on Cloud Infrastructure  

Software 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: US corporate pay information | Microsoft Careers

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until October 23, 2024

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.

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

• Providing strategic product vision to advance industry products   
• Working across teams to define strategic program and product alignment   
• Designing enhancements and integration points for product s 
• Using deep technical expertise, building a quality and secure continuous deployment product to rapidly integrate functionality and tooling    
• Mentoring engineers and providing expert source code review   
• Identifying and evaluating quality frameworks and utilizing an SRE mindset to proactively add resiliency and scale to product