How would you like to directly affect the lives of billions of humans? Would you like your code to run across tens of thousands of machines across datacenters around the world? If you want to be in the high-scale business, we have got interesting opportunities for you.Who We AreMicrosoft FAST has offices in US, China, Norway, and Kenya, and is part of the Experiences & Devices group within Microsoft. Our mission is bold: to help people achieve more through people and knowledge and we are looking for solid, highly motivated engineers who will help making the mission a reality. We are building and running low-latency, highly scalable services that enable Files, People and Search scenarios. Our services power prominent Microsoft 365 products including SharePoint, Exchange, Teams and Microsoft Graph.We can offer an agile development team with diverse skills in algorithms and data structures, big data, data science, machine learning and search technology to mention a few. The position is full-time and based in our Nairobi office, with huge learning and growth opportunities.ResponsibilitiesAs a Microsoft Software Engineer your responsibilities will include:
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