Site Reliability Engineering II

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 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.  

Have you ever wanted to be part of a strong, fun-loving SRE team which takes pride in its work in delighting its customers?

Have you ever dreamed that you would have an opportunity to re-invent the way people explore big data?

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

• Live Site Management – Almost all Microsoft come to rely on Azure Data Explorer (Kusto) for keeping their business running. This fuels a lot of passion in our team to keep the systems working at high availability and performance
• 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.
  
  

Embody our culture and values

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

Qualifications

• Bachelors Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field
• 3+ years of technical experience in software engineering, network engineering, service engineering, or systems engineering
• Livesite, Production support, Customer troubleshooting would be a good fit for the role
• 2+ years of scripting and programming experience, including any of the following: .NET, PowerShell, Python, C
• Kowledge in Automation and devops could be a plus
• A combination of Software Engg and Support engineering is a good fit for the role
  
  

Other Requirements

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.
  
  

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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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