Azure Edge + Platform brings together Edge platforms, devices, and services to deliver Edge solutions, operating systems, and engineering systems. Driven by its customers’ needs, Azure Edge + Platform seeks to accelerate growth for Azure, E&D, and Microsoft’s customers worldwide.

The organization’s portfolio spans the Cloud Edge Stack, Azure Engineering Systems, Azure Media Services - for end-to-end media workflow and analytics - and Microsoft’s Operating Systems including the Azure Host OS and Windows. This portfolio impressively powers the world with more than one billion monthly active devices.

Are you passionate about Linux, Kubernetes, and distributed systems? Do you want to be part of a high-energy and creative team that is currently building the future of Azure connected Edge platforms? Do you love to contribute to Linux and other opensource communities across the globe? We are the Core OS Linux Group at Microsoft. We recently open sourced our internal Microsoft Linux distribution, CBL-Mariner GitHub for Azure 1P services and edge appliances which is now used by products across AKS-HCI, EFLOW, Azure Percept, WSL etc. We’re growing, and we’re adding Principal developers to lead the technology direction as we deliver a wide range of functionality based on Linux into the Azure cloud and Edge platforms.

In this role, you will contribute to the technical direction in how Azure first party services and edge appliances come together to create a Kubernetes distributed edge platform, ready for powering the needs across various sectors – from 5G telco to Industry 4.0 and Manufacturing. You will coordinate design and coding across multiple projects, partnering with internal teams in multiple geographies.  You will work closely with the broader CNCF and Linux community, contributing code upstream.  And you will work closely with customers to fix problems encountered in using Linux in the Azure cloud and edge platforms.

If you love to build distributed systems with Kubernetes and Linux, work with great teams to solve large-scale enterprise issues and enjoy working on system-level design and implementations, this is the right place for you! 

Responsibilities

Responsibilities

• Lead the architecting, designing, developing, debugging, and delivering of innovative cloud and edge functionality using Linux 
• Drive key open-source initiatives within Microsoft in an open manner to contribute to Linux adoption both on Azure cloud and Edge.
• Ensure customer success by debugging and fixing complex issues they encounter with the Linux OS running in the Azure cloud and edge
• Provide technical direction for a team of 5 to 10 software engineers  

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

• A bachelor’s degree or higher in computer science or related discipline, or equivalent relevant work experience
• 8+ years software development with, C++, Golang, Rust or other object-oriented programming languages
• 10+ years of professional work experience
• 1+ year of experience building reliable, distributed systems at scale
• Deep design/coding/debugging in Linux both in kernel and user mode
• One or more datacenter-class technologies such as networking, storage, file systems, processor architectures, virtualization, etc. 

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with workload/container orchestration using Kubernetes, similar platforms or CNCF technologies.
• Domain knowledge in Networking, Kubernetes and Network resilience
• Deep Technical knowledge of cloud storage and networking
• Contributing to open-source projects, like the Linux kernel or CNCF projects is a plus
• Excellent collaboration skills with ability to develop key partnerships

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 every two years.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances.  We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.