Microsoft Principal Software Engineer - Azure Core Container Upstream 

United States 

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As a Principal Software Engineer - Azure Core Container Upstream you will be responsible for designing, building, and deploying cloud-native solutions. You will be collaborating with other engineers to create designs and getting buy-in from the rest of the company and the CNCF community. This position requires collaboration across team and organizational boundaries.

Required/Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Go or Python
  • OR equivalent experience.
• 6+ years of experience writing Golang applications, building Kubernetes operators, contributing to Kubernetes core or other CNCF (Cloud Native Computing Foundation) projects, and mutating cloud infrastructure (Azure, AWS, etc.)
• 6+ years of experience with containers and container security.

Other Requirements:

• 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++, C#, OR Python
  • 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++, C#, or Python
  • OR equivalent experience.
• Have a proven track record of remote work and experience contributing to open-source projects.
  
• Ability to collaborate effectively and respectfully with external contributors. Our projects are not “Microsoft only”.
  
• We assist external contributors in the hopes of encouraging them to contribute to our designs and eventually become project maintainers themselves.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:Microsoft will accept applications for the role until June 18, 2024.

• Partner with product managers, business stakeholders, and users to understand user pain points deeply and create innovative solutions that delight your customers in an agile development environment.
• Passionate about distributed systems and building high-scale services.
• Enjoys new technological challenges and excels at solving them.
• Strive for excellence in everything you do: culture, collaboration, process, tools, design, engineering practices, customer experience, performance, security etc.
• Leads by example and mentors others to produce extensible and maintainable code used across products.
• 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.

• Embody our