Principal Software Engineering Lead- 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.

Responsibilities

• Designing & spearheading implementation of key initiatives, demonstrating ownership from design through implementation of core new areas of the codebase.
• Engaging with internal and external customers, to support, gather feedback and ensure the software meets their needs.
• Collaborate with key stakeholders and lead discussions on the architecture of solutions and apply engineering principles to establish robust and maintainable architecture and designs.
• Demonstrated experience with writing high scale commercial cloud platform software.
• Collaborate with geographically distributed teams across Microsoft and cross-functional disciplines
• Provide technical mentoring & leadership to other team members, to help them grow and develop their skills.
  
  

Qualifications

Required/minimum qualifications:

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C++, Rust, C# OR equivalent experience

AND 6+ years experience in business analytics, data science, software development, data modeling or data engineering

Additional Or Preferred Qualifications

4+ years people management experience Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C++, Rust, C# OR equivalent experience.

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 10+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C++, Rust, C# OR equivalent experience..

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