Azure Edge + Platform brings together Edge platforms, devices, and services to deliver Edge solutions, operating systems, and engineering systems. Driven by its customers’ needs, Azure Edge + Platform seeks to accelerate growth for Azure, E&D, and Microsoft’s customers worldwide.  

The organization’s portfolio spans the Cloud Edge Stack, Azure Engineering Systems, Azure Media Services - for end-to-end media workflow and analytics - and Microsoft’s Operating Systems including the Azure Host OS and Windows. This portfolio impressively powers the world with more than one billion monthly active devices. 

Are you passionate about Linux, Kubernetes, and distributed systems? Do you want to be part of a high-energy and creative team that is currently building the future of Azure connected Edge platforms? Do you love to contribute to Linux and other opensource communities across the globe? We are the Core OS Linux Group at Microsoft. We recently open sourced our internal Microsoft Linux distribution, CBL-Mariner GitHub for Azure 1P services and edge appliances which is now used by products across AKS-HCI, EFLOW, Azure Percept, WSL etc. We’re growing and looking to add enthusiastic developers to build a distributed Linux powered Kubernetes platform and deliver technological innovation for a wide range of products. 

If you love to build distributed systems with Kubernetes and Linux, work with great teams to solve large-scale enterprise issues and enjoy working on system-level design and implementations, this is the right place for you! 

Responsibilities

In this role, you will design and build multiple features that enable Azure first party services and edge appliances come together to create a Kubernetes distributed edge platform, ready for powering the needs across various sectors – from 5G telco to Industry 4.0 and Manufacturing. You will design code across multiple projects, partnering with internal teams in multiple geographies.  You will work closely with the broader CNCF and Linux community, contributing code upstream.  And you will work closely with customers to fix problems encountered in using Linux in the Azure cloud and edge platforms. Ã¢â‚¬Â¯You will define and push the limits of innovative technologies -- working with the latest hardware, the largest servers, and even larger datacenters. 

Qualifications

Required Qualifications  

• A bachelor’s degree or higher in computer science or related discipline, or equivalent relevant work experience 
• 2+ years software development with, C++, Golang, Rust or other object-oriented programming languages 

• Experience in building, shipping and operating reliable, distributed solutions  

Preferred Qualifications  

• Experience with workload/container orchestration using Kubernetes, similar platforms or CNCF technologies. 
• Experience with container runtimes such as Docker, Rkt, runC, containers and how they are enabled by the underlying OS components. 

• Solid architecture, design, development, and testing skills 
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written. 
• Contributing to open-source projects, like the Linux kernel or CNCF projects, is a plus. 

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. 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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