Senior Software Engineer - Infrastructure

As a Senior Software Engineer on our team, you will drive the design, development, and support of the platform that powers Microsoft Foundry Infrastructure team. You’ll work across teams to help make the whole organization successful. Your responsibilities will include the following:

• Extensive experience with Kubernetes cluster creation, management, and optimization. Hands-on experience with CPU/GPU support in Kubernetes.
• Expert level knowledge around security and compliance experience for Kubernetes.
• Extensive experience developing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and Configuration as Code (CaC) solutions using tools like YAML, Bicep, and Helm.
• Solid understanding of networking in k8s for inter, intra and external pod-to-pod, control and data plane communications.
• Write clean and concise code with unit tests.
• Design, implement, and support new features as well as extend existing systems.
• Investigate live site issues and implement and deploy fixes.
• Participate in an on-call rotation.
• Security Configuration and Compliance: Configure, update, and maintain security tools used for endpoint security, log collection and reporting, vulnerability, and compliance scanning. Hardening and compliance with best practices, benchmarks, and remediate vulnerabilities as reported by security.
• Uses appropriate artificial intelligence (AI) tools and practices across the software development lifecycle (SDLC) in a disciplined manner. Takes responsibility for the content of their AI-generated changes to artifacts, reviewing all changes and applying appropriate tooling and processes with minimal guidance.
• Build and operate large-scale Kubernetes-based infrastructure that powers Microsoft Foundry, focusing on reliability, security, scalability, and observability. 
• Own platform engineering areas including AKS fleet management, monitoring and alerting, CI/CD automation, and production operations. 
• Drive operational excellence by troubleshooting live-site issues, participating in on-call, and continuously improving service quality and engineering practices. 
• Provide technical leadership through architecture decisions, cross-team collaboration, code and design reviews, and raising the engineering quality bar across the organization.

Software Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $119,800 - $234,700 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 $160,200 - $261,000 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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