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The Azure Core Linux team's mission is to empower every Linux developer and operator to innovate and run secure, reliable, services at scale. We are looking for an experienced Senior Linux Software Engineer to help make Azure the best place to run Linux workloads.

As an experienced Senior Linux Software Engineer on the Azure Core Linux team you will improve the Linux and cloud native experience on Azure by developing and operating new and existing production services at scale, improve the performance and reliability of existing cloud infrastructure, and work with internal and external partners to create a seamless Linux experience on Azure. If you are passionate about Linux and helping to enable Linux developers and operator we enable customers to troubleshoot their Linux workloads, Microsoft partner teams to package and publish their Linux software, and provision their Azure compute resources. We also offer the opportunity to contribute upstream on Open Source projects that enable our customers and services.

Microsoft Loves Linux and Open Source, come join us if you do too.

Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

Responsibilities

• Partner with Product managers, business stakeholders and users to understand user pain points deeply and create innovative solutions that delight your customers in an agile development environment.

• Passionate about distributed systems and building high-scale services.

• Enjoys new technological challenges and excels at solving them.

• Work across internal engineering teams (Kubernetes, Operating Systems/kernel, Open Source, etc.).

• Improve the reliability and performance of Linux on Azure.

• Monitor and manage critical Linux related infrastructure services. Acts as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) working on-call to monitor system/product feature/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions and gains approval to restore systems/products/services. Contribute these fixes to upstream open source projects and communities. 

• Strive for excellence in everything you do: culture, collaboration, process, tools, design, engineering practices, customer experience, performance, security etc.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• Extensive technical experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, Golang, Rust, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python

• Experiences with Linux networking and experiences with domain name records and resolution (DNS).

• Experiences doing production code reviews using source code control for cloud services and experiences in core Linux technologies (for example: kernel, early-boot, systemd, container primitives, filesystems, packaging, and/or eBPF ).

• Experience with open-source development technologies/practices.

• Experiences with containers, Kubernetes and/or similar technologies and experiences with security engineering fundamentals and practices.

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