Data Engineer

Overview

Security represents the most critical priorities for our customers in a world awash in digital threats, regulatory scrutiny, and estate complexity. Microsoft Security aspires to make the world a safer place for all. We want to reshape security and empower every user, customer, and developer with a security cloud that protects them with end to end, simplified solutions. The Microsoft Security organization accelerates Microsoft’s mission and bold ambitions to ensure that our company and industry is securing digital technology platforms, devices, and clouds in our customers’ heterogeneous environments, as well as ensuring the security of our own internal estate. Our culture is centered on embracing a growth mindset, a theme of inspiring excellence, and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day. In doing so, we create life-changing innovations that impact billions of lives around the world.

Do you have experience in building highly secure, highly scalable, and mission critical services? Do you enjoy working on large scale distributed systems? Do you enjoy being part of a diverse and inclusive global team that has a broad Microsoft and industry level impact? If yes, then we have an excellent opportunity for you. If you are looking for challenges and opportunities to building world class data and insights services using AI, look no further and join us. We are looking for a strong data engineer to contribute to designing, building, and running global services that enables Windows, XBox and Azure. Our team is responsible for services needed to license and protect Microsoft and its partners Intellectual Properties. We build and manage about 30 critical services. DevOps way. Some of our services are of extreme scale with billions of daily transactions. We are looking for a Data Engineer in our India team who will be based out of Hyderabad and who can help us develop and enhance our data platform. We are responsible for delivering integrated, intelligent, and secure services that enable all of Microsofts engineering teams to ingest, protect, and distribute Microsoft products at scale. We are at the forefront of ensuring that Microsofts brand is trusted and secure, and we provide cross-industry malware scanning capabilities, regional "digital manufacturing" services, and much more. Our services are critical for products such as Windows, Windows Server, Office, SQL Server, and numerous other Microsoft offerings, impacting over 250 million licenses issued to our customers each month. With close to 5 billion transactions per month, we are committed to safeguarding our customers privacy, ensuring compliance with our products, and efficiently distributing software worldwide. Join us if youre interested in working on innovative, highly available, and massively scalable services with a global impact.

Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

Responsibilities

Writing clean code with well thought-out design, with focus on quality, simplicity, and maintainability.

Putting customer’s perspective and experience first when designing systems.

Communicating effectively and collaborating with other disciplines to deliver high quality solutions from envisioning to deployment to live site reliability.

Driving improvements with design reviews, code reviews, and test case reviews.

Understanding and adapting to new technologies, tools, methods and processes from Microsoft and industry.

Helping with driving future state architecture changes for the group.

Improving service fundamentals, capacity planning, performance, reliability, and monitoring.

Role modeling Microsoft Values: through behaviors and actions.

Qualifications

• BS in computer science, Data Engineering or equivalent. Skills (must have) Experience: 1 to 3 years of solid Development/Testing experience with data services using various technologies. Understanding and hand on experience with enterprise architectural patterns.
• Experience with Microsoft tools, Azure technology stack and Data technology stack Engineering Practices:
• Good experience on Requirement/Design/Code Review & Inspections practices.
• Experience with any of the following testing & troubleshooting: performance testing, security testing, privacy testing. Other skills: Ability to work in cross functional teams and strong interpersonal skills. DevOps experience with strong passion for live site reliability. Excellent problem-solving and debugging skills with a solid understanding of testing practices.
• Excellent communication & cross-group collaboration skills.
  
  

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 background and Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.

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