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Base Salary
$143k - $304k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own the architecture for control-plane scalability, flex nodes, and the Unbounded platform while defining the multi-year AKS Flex technical roadmap.
- Lead cross-organization design efforts across AKS, Azure compute, storage, networking, and identity.
- Make architectural decisions covering correctness, durability, security, scale limits, and failure modes, and establish design and quality standards.
- Represent Microsoft in Kubernetes and Unbounded open-source communities, including SIG Scalability, SIG etcd, and SIG API Machinery.
- Mentor senior engineers and improve the technical capabilities of the broader team.
- Improve etcd and Kubernetes API server performance, reliability, and efficiency under large node counts and heavy workload churn.
- Design control-plane storage changes involving partitioning, offloading, and caching while preserving correctness and durability.
- Build scale-testing infrastructure, benchmarks, SLOs, and automation for etcd backup, restore, recovery, upgrades, and repair.
- Design and build secure node provisioning and day-two lifecycle automation across Azure regions, on-premises environments, edge locations, other clouds, and bare-metal fleets.
- Design Kubernetes-native APIs, controllers, and CRDs for declarative management of remote machines at fleet scale.
- Address remote-node latency, connectivity, heartbeat, identity, authentication, secure bootstrap, and heterogeneous hardware upgrade challenges.
- Participate in production operations and on-call rotations and contribute to secure, compliant, and resilient infrastructure.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or a related technical field and 6+ years of technical engineering experience with coding, or equivalent experience.
- Ability to pass Microsoft and customer or government security screening requirements, including the Microsoft Cloud Background Check.
- Preferred: master's degree and 8+ years of technical engineering experience, or bachelor's degree and 12+ years of technical engineering experience, or equivalent experience.
- Deep understanding of etcd internals, including Raft consensus, MVCC, watch mechanisms, compaction, defragmentation, bbolt, and operating etcd at scale.
- Deep understanding of storage systems and databases, including B-trees, LSM trees, write-ahead logging, replication, consistency models, transactions, and performance tuning.
- Experience with Kubernetes control-plane internals, including the API server, watch cache, controller patterns, API priority and fairness, and scalability limits.
- Experience with performance engineering, profiling, load testing, capacity modeling, and diagnosing production latency and throughput issues.
- Coding experience in one or more of Go, Rust, C++, C#, Java, or Python.
Benefits
- The typical U.S. base pay range is USD $142,800-$274,800 per year, with a separate San Francisco Bay Area and New York City metropolitan area range of USD $188,000-$304,200 per year.
- Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.
- The position participates in production on-call rotations and requires the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire or transfer and every two years thereafter.
- Applications are accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled, with the posting open for a minimum of five days.
About Microsoft
Microsoft develops operating systems, productivity software, cloud services, developer tools, and consumer devices for individuals, enterprises, and governments. Its main products include Windows, Microsoft 365, Azure, Visual Studio/GitHub, Xbox, and LinkedIn; revenue comes from software subscriptions and licenses, cloud consumption, hardware sales, and advertising. Founded in 1975 and headquartered in Redmond, Washington, Microsoft is a public company traded on Nasdaq.