Senior Software Engineer - Azure Core Upstream

$117,200 - $229,200/Yr

Microsoft - New York, NY

- Senior

Remote - New York, NY

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About the position

Interested in working on cloud-native open-source at a leading hyper-scale cloud? Passionate about distributed systems and building high-scale services? Azure is looking for engineers with knowledge and interest in building the next generation of cloud native solutions in Kubernetes. You can help build the future of cloud-native compute not only at Microsoft, but also in the wider open-source community! As a Senior Software Engineer-Azure Core Upstream, you will be responsible for designing, building, and deploying cloud-native solutions. You will be collaborating with other engineers to create designs and getting buy-in from the rest of the company and the Cloud Native Computing Foundation(CNCF) community. This position requires strong collaboration across team and organizational boundaries.

Responsibilities

• Drives work in open-source communities and collaborates with other open-source contributors.
• Builds the next generation of cloud native solutions for distributed systems.
• Partners with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a set of scenarios.
• Leads identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for a product, application, service, or platform.
• Leads by example and mentors others to produce extensible and maintainable code used across products.
• Leverages subject-matter expertise of cross-product features with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project managers) to drive multiple group's project plans, release plans, and work items.
• Proactively seeks new knowledge and adapts 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 and shares knowledge with other engineers.

Requirements

• 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, Go, C, C++, C#, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience.
• 2+ years of experience writing Golang applications, building Kubernetes operators, and containers.
• Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role.

Nice-to-haves

• 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, Go, C, C++, C#, JavaScript, OR Python OR equivalent experience.
• Experience writing Golang applications, building Kubernetes operators, contributing to Kubernetes core or other CNCF projects, and mutating cloud infrastructure (Azure, AWS, etc.).
• Experience with containers and container security.
• Have a proven track record of remote work and ideally, experience contributing to open-source projects.
• Ability to collaborate effectively and respectfully with external contributors.

Benefits

• Base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $117,200 - $229,200 per year.
• Base pay range for this role in the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area is USD $153,600 - $250,200 per year.