16 hours ago
Remote, United StatesMid Level
H1B sponsor
Base Salary
$102k - $219k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, build, deploy, and iterate on Azure Container Linux bare-metal platform capabilities across partner clouds and third-party server hardware.
- Drive machine lifecycle workflows including OS image creation, hardware bring-up, unattended provisioning, secure updates, rollback, recovery, and firmware updates.
- Develop portable integration layers and automation for varying boot environments, storage and networking configurations, hardware management interfaces, firmware behavior, and cloud control planes.
- Build qualification, observability, and fleet-health systems to validate changes, detect regressions, diagnose failures, and support safe deployment at scale.
- Partner with cloud providers, server and component vendors, Microsoft workload teams, and infrastructure teams to bring up platforms and resolve complex systems issues.
- Support modernization of Linux engineering and production fleets across cloud and edge environments.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field and 2+ years of technical engineering experience with coding, or equivalent experience.
- Coding experience in one or more of C, C++, C#, Rust, Go, or Python.
- Ability to meet Microsoft, customer, and/or government security screening requirements, including the Microsoft Cloud Background Check.
- Preferred: Master's degree with 3+ years of experience, or bachelor's degree with 5+ years of experience, or equivalent experience.
- Preferred experience developing and debugging systems software on Linux.
- Preferred experience with Linux on bare-metal or datacenter-class systems, including provisioning, image creation, updates, boot and recovery, firmware lifecycle, hardware enablement, or fleet management.
- Preferred experience designing or operating automated bare-metal provisioning and lifecycle systems using UEFI, PXE or iPXE, initramfs, bootloaders, BMC management, Redfish, or equivalent interfaces.
- Preferred experience with Linux image composition, package management, secure and transactional or image-based updates, rollback, recovery, and fleet-wide release orchestration.
Benefits
- The typical U.S. base pay range is $102,100-$202,200 per year, with a separate range for specified San Francisco Bay Area and New York City metropolitan locations.
- Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.
- The position is open for a minimum of 5 days and accepts applications 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.