20 hours ago
Base Salary
$143k - $304k/yr
Responsibilities
- Define user requirements and technical direction for agentic observability scenarios across Kubernetes and Linux.
- Design and deliver production-quality products, applications, services, and platforms supporting safe, observable, and evaluable agentic workflows.
- Implement, review, test, debug, maintain, and improve extensible software while mentoring other engineers.
- Coordinate cross-product dependencies, project plans, release plans, and work items across multiple groups.
- Collect, correlate, and interpret systems telemetry using Kubernetes, Linux kernel, and eBPF techniques.
- Serve as a Designated Responsible Individual, participate in on-call operations, and monitor systems for degradation, downtime, or interruptions.
- Drive improvements in availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, performance, and large-scale operations.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field and 6+ years of technical engineering experience with coding, or equivalent experience.
- Coding experience with C, C++, Go, Python, or Rust.
- Ability to pass Microsoft, customer, and/or 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.
- Preferred: experience designing and operating a production Kubernetes/Linux observability or distributed-systems capability, including telemetry, incident response, and rollout or rollback.
- Preferred: experience building or operating a tool-using AI-agent system with documented evaluation sets and auditable approval or safety controls.
- Preferred: experience leading adoption of shared technical architecture across at least two engineering teams or contributing a design/change accepted by an upstream open-source project.
Benefits
- Base pay is listed for U.S. locations, with a separate range for the San Francisco Bay Area and New York City metropolitan area.
- Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.
- Applications are accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled, with the position open for a minimum of 5 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.