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The Principal Software Engineer joins the Azure Kubernetes Service team to develop container management and orchestration services for Linux and Windows. This role involves advancing Kubernetes capabilities, improving quality of service, and accelerating development velocity by balancing vision with pragmatism. You will build automation to remediate service problems, integrate AI tools into workflows, and develop internal and external observability tooling. The position requires proficiency in languages such as C, C++, C#, Golang, Java, JavaScript, or Python, along with experience in distributed systems, Linux, and containers. You will solve technical problems related to cloud-native infrastructure, specifically focusing on GPU and accelerator orchestration, AI model deployment, and inference. The work centers on building a foundational platform to manage and scale AI and machine learning workloads across cloud and edge environments.
What does a Software Engineer earn in Remote?
Median $208800 from 367 postings across 50 companies.
Advance the capabilities of Kubernetes and auxiliary components on Azure.
Improve the quality of service for Microsoft Azure Kubernetes Service.
Build automation to prevent and remediate service problems from becoming production incidents.
Leverage and integrate AI tools into the engineering workflow.
Build out internal and external observability tooling.
Deliver continuous improvements to the team’s codebase and development processes.
Accelerate development velocity for all engineers across the organization.
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#, Golang, Java, JavaScript, or Python.
Equivalent experience to the required degree and years of experience.
Ability to meet Microsoft, customer, and/or government security screening requirements, including the Microsoft Cloud Background Check.
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#, Golang, Java, JavaScript, or Python (preferred).
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field and 12+ years of technical engineering experience with coding in languages like C, C++, C#, Golang, Java, JavaScript, or Python (preferred).
Experience in building, shipping, and operating reliable, distributed solutions (preferred).
Experience in Linux (preferred).
Experience with containers and Kubernetes (preferred).
Experience in Github Copilot or other AI agent in design and implementation workflow (preferred).
Ability to engage in site-reliability engineering practices (preferred).
Experience with observability platforms and internals, time-series data, and large data processing (preferred).
Kubernetes
Azure
C++
C#
Java
Go
Python
Distributed Systems
Cloud-Native
Containers
DNS
TCP/IP
TLS
Load Balancing
GitHub Copilot
Observability
Networking
Distributed Systems
Machine Learning Operations
Azure
Kubernetes
CI/CD
Infrastructure as Code
Python
C++
C#
Java
JavaScript
C
Containers
Site Reliability Engineering
Observability
Capacity Planning
Workflow Engines
Orchestration Systems
Distributed Databases
Storage Systems
C
C++
C#
Java
Python
JavaScript
Cloud Infrastructure
Service Architecture
Capacity Planning
Data Protection
Telemetry
Root-Cause Analysis
Operational Automation