Senior Software Engineer- Kusto

Microsoft is a company where passionate innovators come to collaborate, envision what can be and take their careers further. This is a world of more possibilities, more innovation, more openness, and the sky is the limit thinking in a cloud-enabled world.

Microsoft’s Azure Data engineering team is leading the transformation of analytics in the world of data with products like databases, data integration, big data analytics, messaging & real-time analytics, and business intelligence. The products our portfolio include Microsoft Fabric, Azure SQL DB, Azure Cosmos DB, Azure PostgreSQL, Azure Data Factory, Azure Synapse Analytics, Azure Service Bus, Azure Event Grid, and Power BI. Our mission is to build the data platform for the age of AI, powering a new class of data-first applications and driving a data culture.

Within Azure Data, the messaging and real-time analytics team provides comprehensive solutions and a robust platform that enables users to ingest high granularity signals (real-time & observability) and complex data, converting those into a competitive advantage in real-time for both end users and modern applications.

The Kusto team builds Microsoft’s big data interactive analytics service – Azure Data Explorer, that powers Microsoft big data analytics products and is used extensively to operate many other Microsoft services and products.

The Kusto product team is expanding as the Azure Data Explorer service gets more momentum and adoption globally. We are making the digital transformation happen for more and more businesses across the world.

Join the Kusto team as a Senior Software Engineer and be part of empowering businesses all over the world to be more up to date, aware and efficient in a rapidly changing environment in ways that they could not imagine before.

We do not just value differences or different perspectives. We seek them out and invite them in so we can tap into the collective power of everyone in the company. As a result, our customers are better served.

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

• 6+ 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.
  
  

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