Job Description

Redmond, Washington, United States

Date posted: Jan 21, 2025

Job number: 1801787

Work site: Up to 100% work from home

Travel: 0-25 %

Role type: Software Engineering

Employment type: Full-Time

Overview

We're looking for an Azure Incubations Architect to join the Azure Open Source Incubation team. We're part of the CTO's office and are responsible for identifying new product ideas, incubating those ideas, and, if successful, handing them off to Azure's service teams. We work closely with the open-source community as part of our endeavor.

Innovation is challenging work, and if we're pushing ourselves to explore new ideas, we'll find that many of our projects will fail. We've created a psychologically safe environment for experimentation and incubation. When we find good ideas, we double down on those ideas, building them into fully functional products.

We work primarily in the cloud native, developer tools, and security areas, though other areas are open for investigation as well. Our primary customers are software developers building applications in the cloud. Recent projects include Dapr, Radius, Copacetic, and the recently announced Project Drasi. These open-source projects have varying levels of maturity in the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), from Sandbox to Graduated.

Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and 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.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• 8+ years of relevant software design and development experience.
• 4+ years of experience collaborating with principal level engineers.
• 4+ years of experience collaborating with executive technical leaders across a company.

Other Requirements:

• Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role.

Additional/Preferred Qualifications:

• Excellent written communication, organizational, and interpersonal skills.
• Excellent hands-on skills working with development tools, languages, and frameworks.
• Experience with non-Microsoft platforms and technologies including the breadth of cloud native technologies.
• Familiarity with open-source software systems and methodologies.
• Experience working on v1 products or in a startup environment.
• Experience building public cloud services or cloud-based applications.

Responsibilities

As architect, you will be responsible for the overall architecture of Azure Incubations projects. You will work across engineering, product management, partner teams at Microsoft, and the open-source community to identify and design incubations and then, if those incubations prove successful, help transition them into production teams at Microsoft.

As part of your work, you will partner with the Group Manager for Incubations, who runs engineering and product management for Incubations. Together you will assess new ideas, design solutions for promising ideas, and deliver prototypes that enable us to further explore these ideas. You are hands-on and enjoy building prototypes yourself.

In this job, you are focused on delivering success. You know that considering intriguing new ideas is only part of what we do. Our real job is to build; the teams you lead help ensure Microsoft stays on the leading edge of cloud computing. You have a track record of starting new projects and experience with nimbly changing technical direction as projects evolve.

In this job, you'll do a lot of learning. Because we work on the leading edge of cloud native computing and distributed computing, we'll rely on you to master new concepts quickly, leveraging your unique experiences to help us understand these concepts in relation to existing concepts. You are successful because you leverage your depth of experience in areas like cloud computing, distributed computing, and/or developer tools.

In this job, you'll understand that if we're doing our work well, then about 50% of our projects will fail. You understand that failure is a natural part of incubation. You'll ensure we share what we've learned from our incubations so that other Microsoft employees and members of the open-source community can learn from our experiments.

Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work:

• Industry leading healthcare
• Educational resources
• Discounts on products and services
• Savings and investments
• Maternity and paternity leave
• Generous time away
• Giving programs
• Opportunities to network and connect

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to any protected characteristic.

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