Software Engineer II

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.

Data Privacy has never been more top of mind than it is today. Governments around the world are passing new privacy legislation at a fast pace, and companies are investing in many aspects of data compliance to meet these new regulations. There is a significant opportunity here to empower every company to deliver data privacy solutions that meet these regulations and that build customer trust. We are the Microsoft Data Privacy Platform Team, a part of the Cloud Ecosystem Security (CES) Organization. If you are looking for an opportunity to move the needle on data privacy, then we may be the right team for you. The Data Privacy Platform (DPP) team has been providing internal data privacy products for all Microsoft since 2018, operating these products at high scale and availability. We build reliable, highly scalable, highly performing, and distributed systems for scanning, cataloging, classification, and DSR processing. Our job is to provide privacy infrastructure, to produce meaningful insights about compliance, and to create understandable actions that can be taken to improve. We are leveraging this experience to create new data privacy products to benefit Microsoft and later all our customers. There is a steady stream of new requirements for both our internal and external partners that create exciting opportunities to work on a high scale, impact, and visibility. Were looking for an enthusiastic Data Engineer to help us build and deliver business Intelligence through data for billions of DSRs that are processed for customer’s delete and export requests. Your responsibilities will include working closely with a variety of teams such as Engineering, Program Management, Design and application partners to understand the key business questions for customer-facing scenarios, to set up the key performance indicators, and setup data pipelines to identify insights and experiment ideas that moves our business metrics.  We will be looking to you to help evaluate the return of investments on new ideas, to assess if investments are meeting customer and business promises, to design and assess experiments, to measure growth and to derive insights that help identify next wave of opportunities and problems to be solved.

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

Provide new and improve upon existing data platform offerings with a fundamental understanding of the end-to-end scenarios. Collaborate with partner teams and customers to scope and deliver projects. Authoring and designing Big Data ETL pipelines in Python, Spark, Synapse, Kusto, etc.  Developing and managing Power BI reports. Data extraction across a wide variety of data sources.  Data cleaning, preprocessing, and transformation for further analysis by data analysts.  Data Validation framework from source to endpoints ensuring data quality and integrity.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related technical field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, Python, Spark, C, C++, C#, OR equivalent experience.
• Proven design, coding and debugging skills in Python, Spark, C# and PowerBI.
• Ability to work and communicate effectively across disciplines and teams.
• Expertise in distributed data processing and analysis using technologies such as Apache Spark.
• 4+ years of expertise in software development with a focus on designing and developing data engineering pipelines.
• Proven design and problem-solving skills, with an emphasis on quality and engineering excellence.
  
  

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.
• 4+ years of experience in data engineering.
• Hands-on experience in architecting and implementing data engineering pipelines with cloud-based tools like Azure Synapse, Azure Data Factory, SQL, Azure Data Explorer, Power BI, and Apache Spark. Skilled in designing and developing Power BI reports.
• Good analytical skills with a systematic and structured approach to software design.
• Great curiosity and willingness to question.
• Strong desire to innovate, ideate and implement the products and processes.
• High enthusiasm, integrity, ingenuity, results-orientation, self-motivation, and resourcefulness in a fast-paced competitive environment. 
• Love the next problem, the next experiment, the next partner.
• Have a deep desire to work collaboratively, solve problems with groups, find win/win solutions, and celebrate successes.
• Get excited by the challenge of hard technical problems.
• Solve problems by always leading with deep passion and empathy for customers.
  
  

People would want to work with our team because we foster a culture of ownership, where everyone is empowered to lead projects and drive meaningful impact. We have a clear vision aligned with innovative, cutting-edge work, offering exciting challenges that inspire growth and creativity. Collaboration and mutual support are at the core of our team dynamics, creating an environment of trust and inclusivity. We prioritize work-life balance and flexibility, ensuring that personal well-being is respected and supported. Our team’s consistent success and recognition reflect a culture that values and celebrates every contribution.

Deliver the projects on time with great collaboration with stake holders. Should be great team player, willing to help others and take help from others. Exhibit a growth mindset by continuously developing skills, remaining flexible in the face of change, and actively seeking feedback to improve individual performance and strengthen the teams overall effectiveness

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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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