1 day ago
Base Salary
$120k - $261k/yr
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain tools and systems managing hundreds of thousands of virtual machines powering Azure Kubernetes Service.
- Improve the performance, availability, and efficiency of Kubernetes clusters across a large-scale global fleet.
- Automate cluster lifecycle operations including deployment, upgrades, repair, validation, and safe rollout of infrastructure components.
- Develop tools, services, and safety mechanisms that prevent infrastructure issues from becoming customer-impacting incidents.
- Partner with AKS and Azure teams to deliver secure, compliant, and resilient infrastructure changes.
- Participate in production operations and on-call rotations and use operational learnings to drive engineering improvements.
- Contribute through technical design, code reviews, mentoring, and continuous improvement.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field and 4+ years of technical engineering experience with coding, or equivalent experience.
- Coding experience in languages including Go, Bash, Rust, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python.
- Ability to meet Microsoft, customer, and/or government security screening requirements, including the Microsoft Cloud Background Check.
- Preferred: master’s degree with 6+ years of experience, or bachelor’s degree with 8+ years of experience, or equivalent experience.
- Preferred: experience with Linux or similar Unix-like server environments, or equivalent experience.
- Preferred: experience with containers, Kubernetes, or other cloud-native technologies, or equivalent experience.
- Preferred: experience with cloud computing and infrastructure management concepts, or equivalent experience.
- Preferred: experience with observability databases and platforms such as OTel, Prometheus, Datadog, or Elastic.
- Preferred: experience with cloud-based telemetry data stores such as Azure Data Explorer/Kusto or ClickHouse.
Benefits
- Base pay is listed as USD $119,800–$234,700 per year across the U.S., with a separate San Francisco Bay Area and New York City range of USD $160,200–$261,000 per year.
- Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.
- The position is open for a minimum of five days and accepts applications on an ongoing basis until filled.
Tech Stack
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.