Senior Software Engineer
- Location
- United States
- Job type
- Full-time
- Level
- Senior
- Experience
- 4+ years
- Education
- Bachelor's degree
- Listed
- 29 days ago
Skills & highlights for this role
- Kubernetes
- Linux
- Go
- cloud infrastructure management
- observability platforms
Also useful
- Prometheus
- OpenTelemetry
- Azure Data Explorer
About the role
Build and maintain the tools and systems that manage 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. Design automation for 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 across AKS and Azure teams to deliver secure, compliant, and resilient infrastructure changes. Participate in production operations and on-call rotations, using operational learnings to drive durable engineering improvements.
Contribute to an engineering culture through technical design, code reviews, mentoring, and continuous improvement.
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, Go, Bash, Rust, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, Go, Bash, Rust, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, Go, Bash, Rust, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python Experience with Linux or similar Unix-like server environments Experience with Containers, Kubernetes, or other cloud-native technologies Experience with cloud computing and infrastructure management concepts OR equivalent experience Experience with observability databases and platforms such as OTel, Prometheus, Datadog, Elastic or equivalent Experience with Cloud-based telemetry data stores such as Azure Data Explorer/Kusto, Clickhouse or equivalent
From Microsoft's careers page, first listed on Rolev.ai on October 11, 2026. Rolev.ai is not the employer.
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