1 day ago
Base Salary
$143k - $304k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own the networking architecture for AKS Flex nodes and Unbounded and help define the multi-year technical roadmap.
- Lead cross-organization design across AKS, Azure networking, compute, and identity teams.
- Build multi-site networking using encrypted overlays, tunneling, direct L3 routing, BGP, and eBPF dataplanes.
- Design connectivity for remote nodes with high latency, intermittent connectivity, partitions, NAT traversal, and secure API server communication.
- Drive dataplane and control-plane performance, scale, encryption efficiency, route scale, policy scale, and reliability across a global fleet.
- Integrate InfiniBand and RDMA fabrics for distributed AI training and inference.
- Participate in production operations and on-call rotations and convert operational learnings into engineering improvements.
- Partner with AKS and Azure teams to deliver 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 meet Microsoft, customer, and 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 experience, or equivalent experience.
- Experience with Linux or similar Unix-like server environments.
- Experience leading the architecture, design, and delivery of large-scale networking or distributed systems.
- Deep understanding of data-center, overlay, and high-performance networking fabrics, including InfiniBand, RDMA, MRC, ESUN, VXLAN, GENEVE, WireGuard, BGP, and eBPF-based dataplanes such as Cilium.
- Deep understanding of the Linux networking stack, including routing, netfilter/nftables, XDP, and kernel networking performance.
- Experience with containers, Kubernetes, or other cloud-native technologies, including building controllers and CRDs.
- Recognized maintainer or leader in Kubernetes, Cilium, CNCF, or other networking open-source projects.
- Experience with CI/CD tools and processes such as GitHub, Azure DevOps, or GitLab.
Benefits
- The position includes production on-call rotations.
- The role is open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until filled.
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.