Software Engineer II
Microsoft
2 - 5 years
Hyderabad
Posted: 23/08/2025
Job Description
Overview
Are you excited about cyber security?
Are you passionate about protecting customer data?
Are you eager to design and optimize large-scale data pipelines that process massive datasets efficiently?
Are you interested in solving problems leveraging distributing computing, hybrid architectures and cloud technologies?
If so, the M65 Security Engineering at Microsoft have a great opportunity for you. We are looking for candidates to work on solutions that protect Microsoft services against cyberattacks. We are a team that values diversity of multiple fronts and believes in deep collaboration bringing the best side of technology. Our team consists of engineers with expertise in large-scale software systems, security analysis, big data, and machine learning. We delight in digging in deep to analyse the billions of events and terabytes of data generated each day by all Microsoft products and services (e.g., Azure, M365) services for evidence of suspicious activities. We ensure that critical security components are present throughout the infrastructure powering these services and that these components are kept up to date.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications:
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience designing, building, and running cloud services at large scale in C#, .Net or any high-level programming language.
- Excellent coding skills, strong understanding in OOPS, design patterns and their application.
- Ability to build and maintain data architectures, pipelines, and sets.
- Expertise in data mining, data storage, and Extract-Transform-Load (ETL) processes.
- Solid understanding of security concepts and best practices.
- Experience with DevOps practices and managing CI/CD pipelines.
- Self-learner with passion for technologies.
- Outstanding ability to both work independently and coordinate across geographies.
- Outstanding ability to communicate complex ideas and concepts to a variety of cross-group stakeholders.
- Strong organization skills, a bias for action, and ability to deliver results.
- Proven ability to deal with ambiguity and drive for clarity.
- Excellent ability to work efficiently, prioritize workflow, ramp quickly, and meet demanding deadlines.
- Outstanding communication skills and collaboration capabilities.
- Self-learner with passion for technologies.
- Able to deep dive in complex areas and self-drive.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Proficient working knowledge of cloud-computing environments like Microsoft Azure, AWS, GCP - Azure preferred.
- Hands on experience in an object-oriented programming language such as C#, Java, or Scala.
- Strong software design and problem-solving skills.
- Experience with modern software services engineering practices such as testing in production, live monitoring, data driven engineering.
- Experience with web service development and familiar with related technologies.
- Experience building and shipping production grade software or services.
- Significant experience with container orchestration technologies and relevant security consideration
- Experience of writing detections/signatures for security products such as IDS/IPS, EDR or Antimalware
Background Check:
- 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 higher/transfer and every 2 years they are after.
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.
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