Senior Software Engineer - Linux

Job Overview

Join Microsoft's Azure Core Linux team as a Senior Software Engineer and contribute to empowering every Linux developer and operator to innovate and run secure, reliable services at scale. This role is pivotal in making Azure the best place to run Linux workloads by developing and operating new and existing production services, improving the performance and reliability of existing cloud infrastructure, and working with internal and external partners to create a seamless Linux experience on Azure.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, deploy, and iterate on solutions to improve the Linux and cloud native experience on Azure.
• Collaborate with other engineers and teams across the company.
• Partner with Product managers, business stakeholders, and users to understand user pain points deeply and create innovative solutions that delight customers.
• Work with external partners and in the open source community to enable and improve the Linux on Azure experience.
• Act as Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) and monitor other engineers across product lines, working on call to monitor system/product/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions.
• Create solutions for troubleshooting Linux issues to root cause and fix infrastructure and boot issues.
• Contribute fixes to upstream open source projects and communities.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python.
• Previous experience as a DevOps engineer running internet / highly scalable and reliable services / micro-services and doing production code reviews using source code control for cloud services.
• Previous experience developing on and for Linux (for example: kernel, early-boot, systemd, container primitives, filesystems, building Linux packages and repos, and/or eBPF).

Preferred Qualifications

• 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python.
• Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience.
• 4+ years of Linux software engineering experience and contributions to upstream open source Linux projects (Debian, Fedora, Flatcar, CentOS, etc).

Why Microsoft?

At Microsoft, we are committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer and supports a diverse and inclusive work environment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances.