Linux is the fastest growing VM OS platform of Azure. Azure Linux team is focused in making the best experience for Linux in the cloud first world. Our team owns core services that helps in creation, bootstrap and support for Linux IaaS and container platforms of Azure. We are looking for senior developer who is passionate about open source workloads, lives and breathes Linux and has either worked in or motivated about distributed systems, scale, performance, and cloud platforms.
We are looking for someone to take Linux Virtual Machine/ Scale set provisioning to the next level of reliability and performance. The project involves understanding the entire compute stack, go deep on performance and reliability tuning and make the underlying changes that will solve the hard problems of notching up higher performance and reliability for systems working on Azure Scale. As a part of your work you may be required to make upstream contributions to cloud-init, be comfortable with programming in different languages and lead the change both internally and externally to the company.
Ideal candidates must have 8+ years of professional development experience in either C++/Go/Python or with C# with willingness to learn. They should also have a passion for excellence, and a willingness to deal with ambiguity. Experience with other cloud platforms and open source projects are a plus. Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.