Principal Software Engineer - Azure Kubernetes Team

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Are you passionate about containerized applications and cloud-native software development? If so, we have an exciting opportunity for you! At Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) traffic team, we build traffic management solutions for AKS customers. The product streamlines communication and enhances the reliability of micro-services in a cloud-native environment.

As a Principal Software Engineer - Azure Kubernetes team, you will be responsible for working with key stakeholders to design the architecture, implement key components, ship the product and support the customers. This opportunity will allow you to leads identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for a product, application, service, or platform. You will also, partners with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a set of scenarios.

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Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or related technical field AND 6+ years backend development experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, Golang or Rust or
  • OR equivalent experience.
• 4+ years of experience in development of cloud native L3 (network layer) to L7 (application layer) network traffic management techniques.
• 4+ years of experience with Kubernetes development.

Other Qualifications:

• Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings: Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science OR related technical field AND 10+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, Golang or Rust
• • OR Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, Golang or Rust
  • OR equivalent experience.
• Hands-on experiences of developing and maintaining a network product in a cloud environment .
• Trackable records of building/maintaining Kubernetes L3 - L7 network stack (CNI (container network interface), mesh etc)
  (Note: This is not a full stack position).

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• Partners with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a set of scenarios.
• Leads identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for a product, application, service, or platform.
• Leads by example and mentors others to produce extensible and maintainable code used across products.
• Leverages subject-matter expertise of cross-product features with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project managers) to drive multiple group's project plans, release plans, and work items.
• Holds accountability as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI), mentoring engineers across products/solutions, working on-call to monitor system/product/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions.
• Proactively seeks new knowledge and adapts to new trends, technical solutions, and patterns that will improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while also driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale and shares knowledge with other engineers.