Microsoft Azure Incubations Architect - 

United States, Washington 

229301757

Open Sourcepart of the CTO's office andresponsible fornew product ideas, incubating those ideas, and if

Innovation is challenging work, and, ifpushing ourselves to explorenew ideasfind that many of our projects will fail.created a psychologically safe environment for experimentation and incubation. When we findgood ideas, we double down on those ideas, building out the idea into a fully functional product.

, Radius, Copacetic, and the recently announced Project Drasi. Theseopen sourceprojects have varying levels of maturity in the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), from Sandbox to Graduated.

Required Qualifications:

• 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, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Go, or Rust
  • OR equivalent experience.

• 8+ years of relevant software design and development experience.

• 4+ years of experience collaborating with principal level engineers.

• 4+ years of experience

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.

Additional/Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science OR related technical field AND 12+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, Java, JavaScript, Go, or Rust
  • OR Master'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++, Java, JavaScript, Go, or Rust
  • OR equivalent experience.

• Excellent written communication, organizational, and interpersonal skills.
• Excellent "hands on" skills working with development tools, languages, and frameworks.

• Experience with non-Microsoft platforms and technologies including the breadth of cloud native technologies.

• Familiarity with open-source software systems and methodologies.

• Experience working on v1 products or working in a startup environment.

• Experience building public cloud services orcloud based

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As part of youryou will partner with the Group Manager for Incubations, who runs engineering and product management for Incubations.Together you will assess new ideas, design solutions for ideas that are promising, and deliver prototypes that enable us to further explore these ideas.

In this job you are focused on delivering success. You know that considering intriguingnew ideasa track recordof starting new projects and experience with nimbly changing technical direction as projects evolve.

In this job you will do a lot of learning. Because we work on the leading edge of cloud native computing and distributed computing,rely on you to master new concepts quickly,your unique experiences to help us understand these concepts in relation to existing concepts. You are successful because youyour depth of experience in areas like cloud computing, distributed computing, and/or developer tools.

In this job you'll understand that, ifensure we share whatopen source