Software Engineer

The Azure Container Networking group is reimagining how hyperscale orchestrators—Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Azure Container Apps (ACA), serverless platforms, and tomorrow’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) native runtimes—connect, protect, and observe billions of containers in real time. Our charter is to deliver lightning-fast networking foundations that empower critical enterprise customers to innovate with confidence while meeting the unprecedented demands of largescale AI workloads.

As a Software Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in architecting, developing, and advancing next-generation frameworks supporting connectivity, observability, and security for distributed container environments at hyperscale. Your responsibilities will include ensuring secure, compliant and quality delivery of features for container networking control plane and data plane. Your contributions will enable best in class service availability and reliability, and you will collaborate cross-functionally to elevate infrastructure reliability, scalability, and performance for mission-critical enterprise workloads.

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• Collaborates with key stakeholders, including platform architects and service owners, to determine user requirements for features underpinning secure, scalable container networking within Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Azure Container Apps (ACA), and emerging AI native runtimes.
• Designs, develops, and implements robust code for Azure Container Networking products and features, promoting code reusability and adherence to industry best practices for high-performance, multi-tenant environments.
• Participates in breaking down security and quality related engineering initiatives into smaller, manageable work items, providing accurate estimations and technical guidance to the team.
• Acts as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI), serving on-call to proactively monitor and respond to system, service, or feature degradation, downtime, or interruptions, and coordinates with the relevant teams to restore critical networking infrastructure for straightforward issues.
• Remains current in cloud-native networking, container orchestration, and observability technologies by investing in ongoing learning. Drives improvements in availability, reliability, efficiency, and performance for Azure Container Networking solutions, and champions consistent monitoring and operational practices at hyperscale.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline.
  • OR equivalent experience.
• Proven experience coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python

Other Requirements: 

• 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.  

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 1+ year(s) technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Python,
  • OR Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field with proven experience coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python,
  • OR equivalent experience.
• Demonstrated technical depth in designing and implementing distributed systems, with strong proficiency in troubleshooting and optimizing complex networking solutions.
• Builder mindset—passion for developing robust, scalable infrastructure and an eagerness to solve challenging problems through innovation and iteration.
• Familiarity with cloud computing concepts, container orchestration technologies (Kubernetes, Docker), and cloud-native networking principles.
• Ability to work collaboratively within cross-functional teams, communicate technical concepts clearly, and contribute to design and architecture discussions.

Software Engineering IC2 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $84,200 - $165,200 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $109,000 - $180,400 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:
https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

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