Software Engineer- Kusto

Have you ever wanted to be an integral part of building a big data search and analytics solution? Have you ever dreamed that you could lead re-inventing the way people explore big data? 

The Kusto team started as a small incubation 10 years ago, and since then has made a lot of buzz within Microsoft, offering a new solution, Azure Data Explorer, for exploring and analyzing log data based on new disruptive technology. Azure Data Explorer’s panel of customers includes thousands of Microsoft services and is growing constantly, within and outside Microsoft. 

Today, we are running a very large-scale cloud service, providing log analytics for hundreds of teams across all Microsoft divisions, as well as for Azure Top100 companies, indexing over 50PB of data daily.  

We are looking for experienced and motivated engineers to help us drive the Kusto revolution and make it THE technology for log search and text analytics across the world. Reinventing the way people interact with big data is happening NOW in the Azure Data Explorer (Kusto) team. 

Required Qualifications: 

- 5+ years of technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C#, Python, Java or C++. 

- 3+ years of experience developing in a cloud environment (Azure, AWS, GCP) 

- 3+ years of experience developing large-scale distributed systems that operate with very high SLA. 

Preferred Qualifications: 

- Academic degree in Computer Science or related field. 

- 2+ years of experience working with Big Data systems (development or usage). 

- Experience with Kubernetes, Linux, and containers. 

- Hands-on experience working with customers (internal teams or external groups). 

- Ability to perform system analysis and drive performance, availability, and reliability improvements. 

- Experience with multi-threading, synchronous and asynchronous programming. 

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.

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

• Perform engineering tasks including designing and implementing new features as well as improving existing ones. 
• Collaborates with developers and program managers throughout the development lifecycle to deliver features that delight the users. 
• Take active part in code reviews to ensure high quality code.  
• Engage with the SRE/CSS teams to root cause and resolve live site issues and/or customer incidents.