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As a Senior Software Engineer on the AKS Platform Infrastructure team, you will tackle complex distributed-systems problems to support mission-critical workloads and emerging AI scenarios. You will build and maintain tools and systems managing hundreds of thousands of virtual machines while designing automation for cluster lifecycle operations, including deployment, upgrades, and repair. Your daily work involves improving performance, availability, and efficiency across a global fleet of Kubernetes clusters while developing safety mechanisms to prevent infrastructure issues from becoming customer-impacting incidents. The role requires proficiency in languages such as Go, Bash, Rust, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python. You will also utilize skills related to Linux environments, containers, cloud-native technologies, and observability platforms like Prometheus or Datadog, while managing telemetry data stores like Azure Data Explorer or Clickhouse to ensure resilient infrastructure.
What does a Software Engineer earn in Remote?
Median $206300 from 364 postings across 57 companies.
Build and maintain tools and systems to manage hundreds of thousands of virtual machines for Azure Kubernetes Service.
Improve performance, availability, and efficiency of Kubernetes clusters across a large-scale global fleet.
Design automation for cluster lifecycle operations including deployment, upgrades, repair, and validation.
Develop tools and safety mechanisms to prevent infrastructure issues from becoming customer-impacting incidents.
Deliver secure, compliant, and resilient infrastructure changes in partnership with internal Azure teams.
Participate in production operations and on-call rotations to drive durable engineering improvements.
Contribute to technical design, code reviews, and mentoring to improve the engineering culture.
What we're looking for
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field and 4+ years of experience coding in languages like Go, Bash, Rust, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python.
Ability to pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check every two years.
Master's Degree in Computer Science or related field and 6+ years of engineering experience (preferred).
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field and 8+ years of engineering experience (preferred).
Experience with Linux or similar Unix-like server environments (preferred).
Experience with Containers, Kubernetes, or other cloud-native technologies (preferred).
Experience with cloud computing and infrastructure management concepts (preferred).
Experience with observability platforms like OTel, Prometheus, Datadog, Elastic, or telemetry data stores like Azure Data Explorer/Kusto (preferred).
Kubernetes
Go
Rust
C++
Python
Terraform
Helm
CI/CD
gRPC
Protobuf
AWS
Azure
Bazel
Buck
Nix
KubeVirt
QEMU
Linux
Distributed Systems
Infrastructure as Code