Software Engineer II

The Microsoft Security organization’s mission of making the world a safer place has never been more important. As threats become more frequent and sophisticated, we drive improvements in our security products that keep our customers safe. Security is one of the fastest growing, collaborative, fun teams with a startup mindset within Microsoft. The Microsoft Defender family offers comprehensive threat prevention, detection, and response capabilities for everyone – from individuals looking to protect their family to the world’s largest enterprises.

We are looking for a talented and motivated software engineer to join our team and help us design, develop, and deliver cutting-edge cloud services and big data solutions that enable our customers to secure their endpoints and respond to threats.

Our team has people from a wide variety of backgrounds, previous work histories, and life experiences, and we are eager to maintain and grow that diversity. We are passionate about learning on the job, collaborating with other teams, and being customer obsessed. Come join us if you are passionate about positively impacting over a billion users from all walks of life through easy-to-use cyber security products.

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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 a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.

Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.

• 4+ years’ experience as a software engineer working on large scale software and a proven track record of having shipped commercially successful software products & services.
• Proven track record architecting and building performant, scalable, reliable, distributed cloud services and driving cost & operational efficiency. 
• Passion for driving engineering excellence, optimization and efficiency initiatives.
• Experience with big data technology and data ingestion / processing pipelines.
• Proficiency in C/C++, C# (.NET Core) or Python.
• Strong problem-solving and debugging skills and ability to work in a fast-paced and agile environment.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills and ability to work effectively in a diverse cross geo team.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Curiosity and willingness to learn, share and improve. 
• Passion for security and customer satisfaction.
• Bachelors’ or Masters’ degree in Computer Science 

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As a Software Engineer in our team, your responsibilities will include designing, implementing, testing, and deploying cloud services and big data pipelines using Azure technologies. The services that you architect and build must be durable across multiple releases, optimized and meet all the expectations of highly scalable, available, and reliable. Additionally, you will collaborate with other engineers, product managers, and security researchers to deliver features and enhancements that meet customer needs and expectations. You will also follow engineering best practices and ensure code quality, performance, security, and maintainability, while continuously learning new technologies and frameworks and applying them to provide thought leadership and solve challenging problems.

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