Software Engineer II

Design, build, deploy, and iterate on Azure Container Linux bare-metal platform capabilities across partner clouds and third-party server hardware. Drive the end-to-end machine lifecycle, including Azure Container Linux image creation, hardware bring-up, unattended OS provisioning, secure OS updates, rollback and recovery, and platform firmware update workflows. Develop portable integration layers and automation that account for differences in boot environments, storage and networking configurations, hardware management interfaces, firmware behavior, and partner cloud control planes. Build qualification, observability, and fleet-health systems that validate OS and firmware changes, detect regressions, diagnose failures, and support safe deployment across heterogeneous hardware at scale. Enable the modernization of Linux engineering and production fleets that support SQL Server and data platforms, cloud-native services, and emerging AI and accelerator-based infrastructure across cloud and edge environments. Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 2+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Rust, Go, or Python Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 3+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Rust, Go, or Python OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 5+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Rust, Go, or Python OR equivalent experience.

developing and debugging systems software on Linux.

with Linux on bare-metal or datacenter-class systems, including one or more of OS provisioning, OS image creation, operating system updates, boot and recovery, firmware lifecycle, hardware enablement, or fleet management Experience designing or operating automated bare-metal provisioning and lifecycle systems using technologies such as UEFI, PXE or iPXE, initramfs, bootloaders, BMC management, Redfish, or equivalent platform interfaces.

with Linux OS image composition, package management, secure update systems, transactional or image-based updates, rollback, recovery, and fleet-wide release orchestration.