Software Engineer II

Microsoft

2 - 5 years

Hyderabad

Posted: 26/10/2025

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Job Description

Overview

In Microsoft Defender for Office (MDO) team, we are responsible for delivering a cloud-based email and message filtering service that protects customers from advanced threats (malware, phish, fraud and spam) in Microsoft’s collaboration workloads (Mail, Teams, Sharepoint, OneDrive). MDO provides investigation, threat hunting and remediation capabilities that allow security teams to efficiently identify, prioritize, investigate, and respond to threats. Our mission is to stay ahead of attackers by continuously evolving our detection and prevention capabilities using advanced machine learning, heuristics, and big data analytics.

Qualifications

Successful candidates need to exhibit below attributes to succeed in this role:

Strong desire to succeed and motivate others.
Demonstrate strong analytic and big picture capabilities in problem solving approaches.
Deep understanding of security fundamentals
Proven ability to execute swiftly without compromising quality.
Versatility and willingness to work with constantly changing priorities with enthusiasm.
Ensure appropriate and effective communication flow among internal and external stakeholders.

Experience & Education qualifications

Bachelors or Masters in computer science, engineering or equivalent.
6+ years of software development experience with C#, C++ or Java.
4+ years of professional experience in building and managing highly scalable, secure, available and resilient with cloud services.
Working in agile teams with strong customer focus.
Experience in Azure, Exchange, or other cloud and distributed systems.
Security or compliance experience
ML and AI knowledge
Depth understanding of technologies / standards in cloud services and security domain e.g. OAUTH, ODATA, open source web technologies, big data platforms etc.

Responsibilities

Our team is looking for passionate engineers at Software Engineering II level to join our team. You will be responsible for

Design and deliver data platform to analyze email flow and provide insights on potential threats

Design, implement, test, and deliver high-quality, distributed, and geo-redundant services to detect the email threats at delivery and mitigate.

Embody our culture and values and demonstrate customer obsession, quality and security.

About Company

Microsoft Corporation is a leading American multinational technology company founded in 1975 by Bill Gates and Paul Allen. Headquartered in Redmond, Washington, Microsoft is best known for its software products, including the Windows operating system, Microsoft Office Suite, and Azure cloud services. The company also produces hardware like the Surface devices and owns LinkedIn, GitHub, and the Xbox gaming brand. Microsoft is one of the world's most valuable companies, playing a key role in personal computing, enterprise software, AI, and cloud computing.