11 hours ago
Base Salary
$143k - $304k/yr
Responsibilities
- Set technical direction and own architecture for services and APIs that provision, scale, and secure containerized compute.
- Lead multi-team platform investments from problem definition through design, staged rollout, and live-site operation.
- Define networking, identity, tenant-isolation, least-access, and secure-execution strategies.
- Use debugging tools, tests, logs, telemetry, and verification practices to prevent and resolve production issues.
- Lead incident retrospectives, corrective actions, root-cause analysis, and on-call operations.
- Drive capacity planning, infrastructure cost efficiency, and alignment with Azure compute, networking, and identity teams.
- Mentor senior and mid-level engineers and raise organizational design and code quality through reviews and shared practices.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field and 6+ years of technical engineering experience with coding in C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python, or equivalent experience.
- Ability to meet Microsoft, customer, and government security screening requirements, including the Microsoft Cloud background check.
- Preferred: master’s degree with 8+ years of experience, or bachelor’s degree with 12+ years of experience, or equivalent experience.
- Deep expertise with Docker, Kubernetes, AKS, Azure Container Instances, Service Fabric, or Virtual Machine Scale Sets.
- Expertise with C#, .NET, and core Azure platform services.
- Experience with infrastructure as code, CI/CD, safe deployment practices, ARM or Bicep templates, and Azure DevOps pipelines.
- Depth in Azure networking, virtual networks, DNS, load balancing, and multi-tenant isolation.
- Experience owning high-availability services at scale, including on-call leadership, incident command, and root-cause analysis.
- Experience with observability and diagnostics tooling such as distributed tracing, metrics, and log analytics.
- Experience with generative AI, agentic workloads, or LLM/ML systems and their infrastructure challenges.
- Demonstrated cross-organizational technical leadership, architecture and design review experience, mentoring, and engineering standards leadership.
Benefits
- Typical U.S. base pay range is $142,800–$274,800 per year; a separate range applies to the San Francisco Bay Area and New York City metropolitan area.
- Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.
- The position is open for a minimum of five days, with applications accepted 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.