Software Engineer II

Falcon is a project that helps developers in the WebXT Org to build, deploy and run microservices at scale. The team builds and owns an SDK that is actively used by 100s of developers to build over 500 mission critical services powering apps like Bing Web Search. The team is also now building the platform to enable smooth and efficient migration of services from the bare-metal hardware to Kubernetes clusters. We are building one of the largest Kubernetes cluster fleets in the world managing tens of thousands of servers across the globe with high agility, reliability and scalability with the aim to run every single workload, both offline and online.

Under the umbrella of this initiative our primary objective is to solve some hard infrastructure management problems at very large scale with the aim of high availability and low latencies that our demanding workloads expect, around ~30ms @ 99th percentile, while optimizing for COGS.

We are targeting to have the best-in-class developer experience and DRI tooling which will increase the developer productivity and agility multifold. We strongly believe that developers should be focusing on solving their end-user problems than solving infrastructure problems.

We are envisioning exponential growth of the platform so are looking engineers who love to:

• work on large-scale, distributed systems
• solve hard infrastructure problems
• simplify infrastructure to enable other engineers to be productive in solving their customer needs

• A Bachelors or Master’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent field
• 4+ years of industry software development experience
• 2+ years of experience design, implement and operating distributed systems
• Experience in Golang is desirable, .NET, C#, C++, Java
• Experience with large scale distributed systems and microservices
• Kubernetes, GoLang expertise is highly desirable

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

• Design and develop large scale cluster fleet management infrastructure to manage diverse resources with high availability, resiliency and agility
• Framework should provide end-to-end solutioning by leveraging open source technologies with sound software engineering practices 
• Collaborate with different engineering teams across the organization to provide both the technical and operational support. 
• Incorporate feedback from our partner engineering teams to drive long-term strategic improvements to the platform. 
• Liaise with various Azure teams such as Compute, Networking and Azure Kubernetes Service to adopt cutting-edge features and influence the product roadmaps of Azure services.
• Maintain code standards regarding quality, privacy, accessibility, security, documentation, etc.
• Proactively seek new knowledge and adapts to new trends, technical solutions, and patterns that will improve the   availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of the platform.