Senior / Principal Software Engineer - Kusto

The Kusto team builds the engine that powers real-time log analytics and big data exploration at massive scale across our company and beyond. You'll be joining the core engine team as a Senior/Principal Engineer, responsible for the technology that processes dozens of petabytes daily across hundreds of our company services and Azure's Top 100 enterprise customers.
Our engine is the foundation for critical products including Azure Data Explorer, our company Fabric's Real-Time Intelligence, Azure Log Analytics, and our company Defender for Cloud. It enables internal observability for hundreds of our company services and delivers lightning-fast analytics for organizations worldwide.
As a Senior/Principal Engineer on this team, you'll lead projects that advance the core Kusto engine by driving new capabilities, optimizing distributed query execution, enhancing ingestion, and solving complex engineering challenges in performance and scalability at petabyte scale.
Responsibilities
Partner with internal and external stakeholders to determine customer requirements, gather feedback, and ensure the engine meets their needs
Own and lead architectural discussions for complex aspects of projects within the Kusto engine and drive dependency identification and the design
Collaborate with partner teams across our company to ensure integration, testing, scalability, performance standards, and live-site coverage
Design and spearhead implementation of key projects in the Kusto engine core, from conception through delivery
Enhance existing engine components for even better performance, scalability, and maintainability
Provide technical leadership and mentorship to engineers, guiding them to produce maintainable, secure, performant code and establish test strategies that ensure quality
Lead collaboration with geographically distributed teams across our company and cross-functional disciplines.