Site Reliability Engineer

Overview

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 databases team builds and maintains Microsofts operational Database systems. We store and manage data in a structured way to enable multitude of applications across various industries. We are on a journey to enable developer friendly, mission-critical, AI enabled operational Databases across relational, non-relational and OSS offerings.

Reinventing Big-Data Engine is happening NOW in Azure Data Explorer team (Kusto).

The team started as a small incubation 10 years ago and has already made a big impact within Microsoft.

Today, we are running a very large-scale cloud service (over 200k nodes), provide log analytics for

hundreds of teams across all Microsoft divisions as well as external world customers.

We are looking for strong and motivated SRE to help us continue driving the Azure Data Explorer /

Synapse Real Time Analytics revolution and make it THE technology for log search and text analytics

across all Microsoft as well as providing value to our external customers.

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

Job Responsibilities:

As a Service Engineer you will be part of a global team driving huge scale live sites 24X7 (with follow

the Sun model) and is passionate to deliver the best service within Microsoft as well as to external

customers

• Customer Focus – Microsoft core value is Customer First. We in Kusto take pride in that and
  
  

bring unwavering customer focus and support to help our customers utilize, embedded and

build deep solutions on top of Kusto tailored to their needs.

• Automation – As Kusto scale is huge and is expected to keep growing rapidly, we are
  
  

committed to deliver automation and tooling to improve our live site management and

adhere to scale without scale methodology. 

• Design - Evaluate and contribute to product, service design and architecture, help shape Site
  
  

Reliability Engineering strategies, review specifications, design and improve upon core

processes.

• Observability - Identify system problems and recommend monitoring solutions &
  
  

automation to improve processing efficiency and stability. 

• Provide engineering design across different workloads including incident & problem
  
  

management, change management, security and compliance.

• Continuous integration/deployment - Implement/maintain and operate the build and release
  
  

pipelines allowing our developers to safely code/test and deploy our products in very large

scale.

• Community Building - Help us build and contribute to an exciting Azure Data explorer
  
  

community .

Embody our culture and values

Qualifications

Required/Minimum Qualifications

This is the role for a SRE that combines LiveSite (maintaining production) and also performing automation

Bachelors Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND

3+ years technical experience in software engineering, network engineering, service

engineering, or systems engineering

OR equivalent experience.

• 2+ years of scripting and programming experience, including any of the following:
  
  

NET, PowerShell, Python, C#

Job Requirements: Other & Additional

Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings: Microsoft Cloud Background Check:

• This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Deep understanding of cloud services
• Knowledge of Kubernetes concepts and implementation in Azure ( AKS ) and/or in
  
  

other cloud provider platforms is a plus.

• Working knowledge of Database as well as Big Data systems is a plus
• Understanding of BCDR
• Understanding and working knowledge of CI\CD pipelines
• 2+ years of troubleshooting experience in wide cloud based systems
• Out of the box, agile thinking to adapt to changing environment
• Deep knowledge of system design & architecture, and running of complex, large
  
  

scale online services

• Working knowledge of Virtual Network and Private Endpoint concepts is plus
• Ability to monitor and takes action on telemetry data and performs analyses to
  
  

identify patterns that reveal errors and unexpected problems that are affecting the

system availability, reliability, performance, and/or efficiency, with minimal guidance.

• Ability to work as part an On-Call rotation is a must
• Ability to contribute to multiple projects/demands simultaneously.
• Ability to work effectively with customers both internal and external to Microsoft is a
  
  

must.

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 reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form (Accessibility | Microsoft Careers).

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This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.

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