Senior Software Engineer - Kubernetes

Microsoft • Redmond, WA

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About The Position

Microsoft’s Azure Data engineering team builds data products and platforms, including Microsoft Fabric and Azure Monitor. The Azure Monitor team develops services that help customers monitor, detect, troubleshoot, and mitigate service issues, including Log Analytics, Application Insights, Container Insights, Hosted Prometheus, and Azure Managed Grafana. Its services process more than 1.5 exabytes of logs daily and track over 100 billion active metrics.

The Senior Software Engineer will build and evolve the cloud-native infrastructure layer for Azure Monitor and other observability services. The role owns complex Kubernetes-based platform systems end to end, drives architecture across teams, improves reliability and security at scale, and helps shape safe AI-assisted and AI-agentic infrastructure operations. The team builds planetary-scale Kubernetes infrastructure, scalable and resilient microservices, operational tooling, and secure, compliant, cost-efficient infrastructure patterns. The position involves participation across the engineering lifecycle, collaboration with partner teams, and deployment across Azure regions. Microsoft describes its culture as collaborative, fast-paced, inclusive, and focused on innovation, accountability, and shipping early and often.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field and 4+ years of technical engineering experience coding in languages such as C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python, or equivalent experience.
• Ability to meet Microsoft, customer, and/or government security screening requirements, including passing the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire or transfer and every two years thereafter.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with Kubernetes, containers, cloud-native infrastructure, distributed systems, or large-scale production services.
• Experience improving reliability, security, observability, networking, or operational excellence for live services.
• Experience partnering across teams to deliver infrastructure capabilities with clear ownership and supportability.
• Experience mentoring engineers, leading design reviews, and driving cross-team architectural alignment.

Responsibilities

• Lead design and code reviews across feature areas.
• Participate in all stages of the engineering lifecycle, from research and discovery through prototyping, development, deployment, and live-site support.
• Work with multiple partner teams and deploy services across Azure regions.
• Design Kubernetes-based cloud infrastructure components with attention to reliability, security, networking, diagnosability, and global-scale cost efficiency.
• Identify bottlenecks and engineer end-to-end solutions for complex production systems, from problem definition and design tradeoffs through execution, launch, monitoring, and operational maturity.
• Lead cross-organization alignment with infrastructure, observability, platform, and service teams to define ownership, unblock execution, and shape long-term investments.
• Raise engineering standards through design and operational reviews, architecture guidance, incident follow-through, and repeatable engineering practices.
• Shape safe and reliable use of AI-agentic systems and AI-assisted operations for Kubernetes-based infrastructure at scale.
• Embody Microsoft’s culture and values.

Benefits

• Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation; additional benefits and pay information is available through Microsoft’s careers website.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior