The Azure Container Networking group is re-imagining how hyper scale orchestrators—Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Azure Container Apps (ACA), serverless platforms, and tomorrow’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) native runtimes—connect, protect, and observe billions of containers in real time. Our charter is to deliver lightning fast networking foundations that empower critical enterprise customers to innovate with confidence while meeting the unprecedented demands of large scale AI workloads.

As a Principal Software Engineer you will architect and build next generation frameworks that provision connectivity, deep observability, and layered security across distributed container fleets. Your work will span dataplane and control plane services, high performance extended Berkeley Packet Filter (eBPF) based datapaths, and cloud Application Programming Interface (APIs) that integrate seamlessly with open source projects like Cilium and Retina. You will also drive an agentic AI platform that reasons over massive telemetry streams to automatically troubleshoot, optimize, and harden the network—enabling “AI for AI” orchestration at cloud scale.

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