About the position
Are you passionate about system architecture and software development? Do you enjoy improving engineering workflows and enhancing system reliability? If so, the Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) Service Hub team may be a great fit for you. We build infrastructure that streamlines development processes, boosts engineering efficiency, and strengthens reliability through standardized, well-designed components. Our team values collaboration, innovation, and supporting one another's success. As a Principal Software Engineer - Cloud Native Development on the AKS team, you'll work across multiple layers of the technology stack-including service frameworks like gRPC(remote procedure call), Kubernetes, and Istio, as well as build, test, provisioning, release, and monitoring systems. You'll design and implement distributed cloud services and libraries with a strong focus on security best practices. This role offers opportunities to lead technical efforts, mentor others, and contribute to high-impact areas of the business while working alongside a diverse and inclusive team that values continuous learning and shared growth. At Microsoft, our mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. We embrace a growth mindset, foster innovation, and collaborate to achieve shared goals. Every day, we build on our values-respect, integrity, and accountability-to create a culture where everyone feels included and can thrive.
Responsibilities
- Develop code for creating production quality service, including micro-service creation (e.g., gRPC, REST API), middleware, build, test, resource provisioning, deployment, monitoring, etc.
- Keep up with the latest tech stacks.
- Build RAG (retrieval augmented generation), workflow that works well with LLM (large language models). This allows users to easily adopt the best practices and apply changes to existing code.
- Work with users to help them use our system. Take their feedback and improve.
- Mentor engineers in terms of code review, design review, helping them debug technical problems, etc.
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, Go, C#, or Python OR equivalent experience.
- 2+ years of experience designing and building distributed cloud services, with a focus on performance, reliability, and maintainability in production environments.
- 2+ years of experience enhancing system reliability, scalability, and security, applying best practices to ensure robust and secure service delivery across diverse environments.
- 1+ year(s) of experience working with Kubernetes, Linux, and container technologies, contributing to the development, deployment, and management of scalable cloud-native applications.
Nice-to-haves
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science OR related technical field AND 10+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, Go, C#, or Python OR equivalent experience.
- Master'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#, or Python OR equivalent experience.
- 1+ year(s) of experience with build, release, and monitoring processes, including implementing continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines and observability tools to support service health and operational excellence.
Benefits
- The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $139,900 - $274,800 per year.
- There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $188,000 - $304,200 per year.
