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Principal Software Engineer - AKS Flex: High Scale

Microsoft • US • published 2026-10-07 21:03:27.325286

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**Overview** Imagine working at the forefront of the cloud industry, redefining where Kubernetes can run. The AKS Flex team is building the next generation of Azure Kubernetes Service: a single AKS control plane that can manage worker nodes running anywhere, whether in other Azure regions, on\-premises data centers, bare\-metal fleets, edge sites, or other clouds. We are hiring a Principal Software Engineer to scale this vision. You will lead the scaling of etcd and the Kubernetes control plane so a single cluster can reliably manage far larger, more geographically distributed, and more heterogeneous node fleets than ever before. You will also build the platform behindflex nodes for AKS and Unbounded, our open\-source project for joining any Linux machine to a Kubernetes cluster, including provisioning, lifecycle, and the Kubernetes\-native APIs that make remote machines manageable at scale. You will solve deeply technical distributed\-systems problems in control plane performance, consistency and durability, node provisioning and lifecycle, security, and reliable production operations. Your work will directly unlock capacity for GPU\-hungry AI workloads, data\-residency\-constrain...

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