Principal Software Engineer - Kubernetes

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 a great 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 are looking for a Principal Software Engineer - Kubernetes who will drive meaningful impact. 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.

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.

Required 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, C, C++, C# or Go 

  • OR equivalent experience.

• 5+ 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

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.
• 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.

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: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until Month June 25, 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.

As a Principal Software Engineer - Kubernetes 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 will 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.

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