Senior Software Engineer - Linux

The Azure Core Linux team's mission is to empower every Linux developer and operator to innovate and run secure, reliable, services at scale. We are looking for an experienced Senior Linux Software Engineer to help make Azure the best place to run Linux workloads. 
 
As a Senior Linux Software Engineer on the Azure Core Linux team, you will improve the Linux and cloud native experience on Azure by developing and operating new and existing production services at scale, improve the performance and reliability of existing cloud infrastructure, and work with internal and external partners to create a seamless Linux experience on Azure. This includes working with developing and maintaining our Linux repositories (packages.microsoft.com) and contributing to upstream Linux and Open Source projects (Fedora, Debian, etc.).

If you are passionate about Linux, we enable customers to troubleshoot their Linux workloads, Microsoft partner teams to package and publish their Linux software, and customers to provision their Azure compute resources. We also offer the opportunity to contribute upstream on Open Source projects that our customers and services use. 
 
Microsoft Loves Linux and Open Source, come join us if you do too. 
 
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. #azurecorejobs 

Locations: Czechia, Poland, Serbia, Romania

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
  • OR equivalent experience.
• Previous experience as a DevOps engineer running internet / highly scalable and reliable services / micro-services and doing production code reviews using source code control for cloud services 
  
• Previous experience developing on and for Linux (for example: kernel, early-boot, systemd, container primitives, filesystems, building Linux packages and repos, and/or eBPF ) 

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 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript,
  • OR Python
  • OR Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
  • OR equivalent experience.
• 4+ years of Linux software engineering experience and contributions to upstream open source Linux projects (Debian, Fedora, Flatcar, CentOS, etc). 4+ years of Linux software engineering experience and contributions to upstream open source Linux projects (Debian, Fedora, Flatcar, CentOS, etc). 

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. 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. #azurecorejobs

• Responsible for designing, building, deploying, and iterating on solutions, like packages.microsoft.com, to improve the Linux and cloud native experience on Azure.
• You will be collaborating with other engineers, and teams across the company. This position requires strong collaboration across team and organizational boundaries.
• Partner with Product managers, business stakeholders and users to understand user pain points deeply and create innovative solutions that delight your customers in an agile development environment. You will also work with external partners and in the open source community to enable and improve the Linux on Azure experience. 
• Act as Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) and monitor other engineers across product lines, working on call to monitor system/product/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions. Help to create solutions for troubleshooting Linux issues to root cause and fix infrastructure and boot issues (provisioning agents, cloud-init, kernel, packaging, initrd, drivers, IMDS, storage, etc.). Contribute these fixes to upstream open source projects and communities. 
• Proactively seek new knowledge and adapt to new trends, technical solutions, and patterns that will improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while also driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale.