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. The goal is to develop disruptive opportunities that drive value to the Azure business, working closely with the open-source community.
Requirements
- 4+ years of experience in software engineering using languages such as 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 Resources Definition), controllers, and operator patterns.
- Experience with DevOps automation and build, test and release pipelines.
- Experience building and maintaining CLI (Command Line Interface) tools.
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.
- 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.
- Shape and launch a transformative, high-impact service from its inception, influencing Azure’s future direction and making a lasting mark on the cloud ecosystem.
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.
- Commitment to fostering an inclusive, collaborative, and respectful culture.
- Communicate strategy to a wide range of audiences—from users and contributors to internal and external partners—with varying technical depth.
