​​Senior Software Engineer​

Interested in working on cloud - native open - source at a leading hyper-scale cloud? Passionate about distributed systems and building high-scale services ? Azure is looking for engineers with knowledge and interest in building the next generation of cloud native solution s in Kubernetes. You can help build the future of cloud - native compute not only at Microsoft, but also in the wider open-source community!ResponsibilitiesIn this role, you will be responsible for designing, building, and deploying cloud-native solutions. You will be collaborating with other engineers to create designs and getting buy-in from the rest of the company and the CNCF community. This position requires strong collaboration across team and organizational boundaries.

• Partner with product managers, business stakeholders, and users to understand user pain points deeply and create innovative solutions that delight your customers in an agile development environment.
• Passionate about distributed systems and building high-scale services.
• Enjoys new technological challenges and excels at solving them.
• Strive for excellence in everything you do: culture, collaboration, process, tools, design, engineering practices, customer experience, performance, security etc.

Qualifications Required Qualifications:

• 4+ years of Software Development experience.
• Experience working on projects written in Go.
• Desire to work in Open -S ource, communicating with both team members and open-source contributors asynchronously via GitHub, Slack, and regular community meetings on Zoom.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience writing Golang applications.
• Experience building Kubernetes operators.
• Experience contributing to Kubernetes core or other CNCF projects .
• Experience mutating cloud infrastructure (Azure, AWS, etc.) .
• Experience with containers and container security.
• Have a proven track record of remote work and experience contributing to open-source projects.
• Strong ability to collaborate effectively and respectfully with external contributors. Our projects are not "Microsoft only ". We assist external contributors in the hopes of encouraging them to contribute to our designs and eventually become project maintainers themselves.

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.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. 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 .
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