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Principal Software Engineer

Microsoft • US • published 2026-09-26 21:52:03.082133

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**Overview** The Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) team is building a world\-class managed Kubernetes platform for Linux and Windows workloads across cloud and edge environments. Our mission is to define the next generation of secure, reliable, and scalable cloud\-native infrastructure on Azure. We are seeking a Principal Software Engineer to lead the architecture and evolution of the AKS control plane. You will solve complex distributed\-systems challenges across Kubernetes API servers, etcd, scheduling, controllers, networking, and control\-plane lifecycle management. Your work will improve availability, performance, scalability, security, and operational resilience for millions of clusters and some of the world’s largest production and AI workloads. You will drive designs that eliminate single points of failure, reduce customer\-impacting incidents, improve failure isolation and automated recovery, and enable control planes to scale safely under rapid growth and demanding workloads. You will establish reliability engineering practices using meaningful SLIs and SLOs, capacity modeling, fault injection, observability, and data\-driven incident prevention. You will also lead cross\-te...

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