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The Principal Software Engineer joins the Azure Local AKS team to extend cloud capabilities to on-premises, multi-cloud, and edge environments. In this role, you will design and deliver software that automates how Azure Kubernetes Service clusters are provisioned, upgraded, and managed. You will own features from design through production, solve complex problems in networking, virtualization, and cluster lifecycle management, and mentor fellow engineers. Key responsibilities include identifying dependencies, developing design documents, and serving as a Designated Responsible Individual for system monitoring. Required technical skills include proficiency in languages such as C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python. Preferred expertise includes GoLang, Linux Operating Systems, Kubernetes Cluster API, and experience with networking, storage, compute, and CI/CD pipelines to ensure reliable on-premise cloud infrastructure.
What does a Software Engineer earn?
Median $196750 from 2601 postings across 154 companies.
Design and deliver software to automate AKS cluster provisioning, upgrades, and management on Azure Local.
Lead the identification of dependencies and develop design documents for products, applications, and platforms.
Mentor engineers to produce extensible and maintainable code used across multiple products.
Serve as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) to monitor systems for degradation, downtime, or interruptions.
Partner with stakeholders to determine user requirements for specific technical scenarios.
Drive project and release plans by leveraging subject-matter expertise across cross-product features.
Implement technical solutions to improve product availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance.
What we're looking for
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field and 6+ years of technical engineering experience with coding in languages like C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python (or equivalent experience).
Ability to meet Microsoft, customer, and/or government security screening requirements, including a Microsoft Cloud Background Check.
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field and 10+ years of technical engineering experience with coding in languages like GoLang, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python (preferred).
Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field and 8+ years of technical engineering experience with coding in languages like C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python (preferred).
Experience in building, shipping, and operating reliable on-premise cloud infrastructure (preferred).
Ability to engage in site-reliability engineering practices (preferred).
Knowledge of secure development practices and maintaining project compliance (preferred).
Advanced knowledge of Kubernetes, Linux Operating Systems, and Kubernetes Cluster API (CAPI) and Providers (preferred).
Kubernetes
Azure
C++
C#
Java
Go
Python
Distributed Systems
Cloud-Native
Containers
DNS
TCP/IP
TLS
Load Balancing
GitHub Copilot
Observability
Networking
Kubernetes
etcd
Go
Rust
C++
C#
Java
Python
Azure
distributed-systems
Raft Consensus
API Server
CRDs
B-trees
LSM trees
Write-Ahead Logging
Performance Engineering
PXE Boot
Distributed Databases
Storage Systems
C
C++
C#
Java
Python
JavaScript
Cloud Infrastructure
Service Architecture
Capacity Planning
Data Protection
Telemetry
Root-Cause Analysis
Operational Automation