Software Engineer II

Microsoft

2 - 5 years

Hyderabad

Posted: 07/06/2025

Job Description

Overview

Does pioneering new and innovative ways to collect and showcase key customer data sound exciting to you? Are you passionate about data and do you feel we have been missing the opportunity to be more data-informed at Microsoft? Do you want to contribute to an effort that is one of the most critical for the future success of Microsoft, E+D and SCI? If so, the Insights, Data Engineering & Analytics (IDEAs) team might be an excellent place for you to grow your career. M365 together with SCI is at the core of our Company’s mission to enable people and organizations to achieve more. Be part of the team building platform services handling millions of users and exabytes of data. This is not just some large-scale web service: the implementation ranks among the world’s largest and state of the art distributed systems, spanning across data centers around the world. The Insights, Data Engineering & Analytics team’s goal is to champion a data-informed culture; to inspire and enable the entire E+D organization to make more informed decisions through data. We see this effort as a huge opportunity in providing information to the organization that will improve efficiency, empowerment, and help Microsoft win in the critical cloud business sector.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field and 3+ years technical engineering experience
We are looking to hire Full stack, backend and frontend engineers for multiple roles we have
Experience in coding in languages including, but not limited to, Java, C#, C, C++, or equivalent experience OR/AND experience with at least one of the following scripting languages: JavaScript, PowerShell, Python, Perl, or Ruby (for data manipulation and automation tasks

Preferred Qualifications:

Experience working and building distributed cloud services using Azure or related technology stacks
Experience with Azure Data Factory, Cosmos, Kusto, Spark, Kafka or other big-data related technology stacks
Experience of software testing/release processes and methodologies
Proven design and analytical skills, with a strong bias for engineering excellence at scale
Functional knowledge of cloud computing and online services business models, including business, technical, and operational metrics
Solid background in data warehouse principles, architecture, design and its implementation at large scale
Ability to operate effectively and independently in a dynamic, fluid environment
Ability to learn and grasp concepts quickly in a fast-paced environment

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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Responsibilities

As a Software Engineer II on our team, you would be responsible for:

The technical leadership and end-to-end development of the data solutions that will help E+D and SCI gain the strategic insights we need to deliver the most optimal user experience and to quickly adapt to market conditions that are constantly evolving
You will also apply your engineering and analytical skills to petabyte scale data problems using the latest and most modern data analytics technologies on an ever-increasing number of data signals produced by the different products part of the M365 suite and our partners across the company
In this position you will face tough engineering challenges every day as we deal with very large, disparate and usually complex data sets as we aim to provide an efficient and reliable platform for data wrangling and curation. The integration of different data democratization and visualization techniques will also enable us to extract even the most deeply embedded insights from this data to then make those insights readily available to everyone in our organization, affording them the flexibility of analyzing said data in a self-service manner.

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.