[Remote] Principal Software Engineer - Azure Kubernetes Service

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Microsoft is a leading technology company committed to empowering every person and organization on the planet. The Principal Software Engineer for Azure Kubernetes Service will design architecture, implement key components, and support customers, focusing on enhancing the reliability of micro-services in cloud-native environments. Responsibilities • Partners with appropriate stakeholders to identify the direction and dependencies for products/features fulfilling a set of scenarios • Leads by example and mentors others to produce extensible and maintainable code used across products • Holds accountability as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI), mentoring engineers across products/solutions, working on-call to monitor system/product/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions • Increase development speed and efficiency across the AKS engineering team • Proactively seeks new knowledge and adapts to new trends, technical solutions, and patterns that will improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while also driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale and shares knowledge with other engineers Skills • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, Go, C#, Rust, or C/C++ OR equivalent experience • 4+ years of experience in building, shipping and operating reliable, distributed solutions • 2+ years of experience with Kubernetes development • 2+ years of experience engaging in site-reliability engineering practices and the ability to use AI tools for coding • 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 • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science OR related technical field AND 10+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, Go, C#, Rust, or C/C++ OR Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, Go, C#, Rust, or C/C++ OR equivalent experience • 5+ years of experience designing and delivering advanced networking solutions (east/west and north/south) for large-scale, cloud-native environments • 3+ years of experience architecting and evolving the Kubernetes Layer 3 to Layer 7 (L3–L7) network stack, including at least one of: Container Network Interface (CNI) plugins, service mesh, edge traffic management, or related control/data plane components • 3+ years of experience with distributed systems design, scalability, and fault tolerance, including diagnosing and resolving complex issues in production environments; 1+ year of experience with Linux networking internals such as iptables/nftables, extended Berkeley Packet Filter (eBPF), routing, tunneling, and network namespaces Company Overview • Microsoft is a software corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services. It was founded in 1975, and is headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA, with a workforce of 10001+ employees. Its website is Company H1B Sponsorship • Microsoft has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 7425 in 2025, 9343 in 2024, 7677 in 2023, 11403 in 2022, 7210 in 2021, 7852 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Apply tot his job