Principal Software Engineer - Kubernetes

Join the Sky team at Microsoft to empower Microsoft Cloud teams and their customers to easily deliver high-quality services using standard cloud architecture and infrastructure. As a Principal Software Engineer - Kubernetes, you'll work on business-critical initiatives that directly contribute to the future of Microsoft's business. You'll lead the design and implementation of solutions that deliver reliability, security, and compliance fundamentals to Microsoft's internal cloud native services.

Key responsibilities:

• Leverage Kubernetes expertise to design and implement solutions
• Work with stakeholders across the company to define product strategy
• Foster engineering culture for standardized solutions with a quality focus
• Lead technical projects and influence others across organizational silos

Required qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience
• 6+ years of technical engineering experience with coding in C, C++, C#, or Go
• 5+ years of experience with Cloud Native technologies including containers, Go, and Kubernetes
• Ability to participate in a periodic, global 24x7 on-call rotation

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience operating large-scale Kubernetes environments
• Knowledge of Kubernetes networking configurations and security best practices
• Understanding of modern software & systems architectures
• Experience designing, building, and troubleshooting complex software systems

The role offers a competitive salary range of $137,600 - $267,000 per year (higher in San Francisco and New York City areas), along with benefits such as healthcare, educational resources, savings and investments, parental leave, and more.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer and values diversity and inclusion in the workplace.