The Azure Incubations Team within the Azure Office of the CTO is responsible for identifying new product ideas, incubating them, and creating an open-source community around successful projects before handing them off to Azure’s service teams. Their goal is to develop disruptive opportunities that drive value to the Azure business, working closely with the open-source community.
Requirements
- 6+ years of experience in software engineering using languages such as C, Go, or Python
- 2+ years of experience building orchestration frameworks in cloud-native environments.
- 2+ years of experience working with Terraform, CloudFormation or Azure ARM (Azure Resource Manager) templates
- Expertise in Kubernetes, including CRDs (Custom Resource Definitions), controllers, and operator patterns.
- Familiarity with Terraform, Bicep, and Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
- Understanding of multi-cloud architectures (Azure, Amazon Web Services).
- Experience with DevOps automation and build, test and release pipelines.
Responsibilities
- Deliver the next-generation open-source cloud-native deployment framework.
- Establish engineering processes and drive technology decisions to create a performant, resilient, and secure product for the open-source community.
- Demonstrate a deep understanding of the impact of architectural choices.
- Collaborate with internal partner teams to integrate new technologies across services.
- Lead cross-group efforts, provide community and industry leadership, and help define strategic direction.
- Foster open-source community engagement and contribution.
- Implement continuous feedback loops to measure customer value and usage insights.
Other
- Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role.
- Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
- Proven leadership in engineering teams and mentoring in ambiguous environments.
- Commitment to fostering an inclusive, collaborative, and respectful culture.
- Mentor team members and support their professional development.
