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Principal Software Engineer - Cloud Native Development

Microsoft

$139,900 - $304,200
Sep 4, 2025
San Francisco, CA, USA • San Jose, CA, USA • • Redmond, WA, USA • Mountain View, CA, USA • Boulder, CO, USA • Atlanta, GA, USA
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Microsoft's Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) Service Hub team is looking to improve engineering workflows and enhance system reliability by building infrastructure that streamlines development processes, boosts engineering efficiency, and strengthens reliability through standardized, well-designed components.

Requirements

  • 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, Go, C, or Python
  • 2+ years of experience designing and building distributed cloud services, with a focus on performance, reliability, and maintainability in production environments.
  • 2+ years of experience enhancing system reliability, scalability, and security, applying best practices to ensure robust and secure service delivery across diverse environments.
  • 1+ year(s) of experience working with Kubernetes, Linux, and container technologies, contributing to the development, deployment, and management of scalable cloud-native applications.
  • 1+ year(s) of experience with build, release, and monitoring processes, including implementing continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines and observability tools to support service health and operational excellence.

Responsibilities

  • Design and implement distributed cloud services and libraries with a strong focus on security best practices.
  • Work across multiple layers of the technology stack—including service frameworks like gRPC(remote procedure call), Kubernetes, and Istio, as well as build, test, provisioning, release, and monitoring systems.
  • Develop code for creating production quality service, including micro-service creation (e.g., gRPC, REST API), middleware, build, test, resource provisioning, deployment, monitoring, etc.
  • Build RAG (retrievel augmented generation), workflow that works well with LLM (large language models).
  • Keep up with the latest tech stacks.
  • Mentor engineers in terms of code review, design review, helping them debug technical problems, etc.
  • Work with users to help them use our system. Take their feedback and improve.

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.
  • Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer.
  • 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.