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Software Engineer II

Microsoft

Microsoft

Software Engineering
Posted on Aug 1, 2025

Software Engineer II

Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

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Date posted
Aug 01, 2025
Job number
1854244
Work site
Up to 50% work from home
Travel
0-25 %
Role type
Individual Contributor
Profession
Software Engineering
Discipline
Software Engineering
Employment type
Full-Time

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.

The team will be responsible for building and maintaining the core infrastructure and services that form the Control Plane of Microsoft Sentinel Graph (MSG). This crucial mission supports Microsoft's Security business, meeting the immense scale demands that few companies in the industry face. By leveraging cutting-edge technologies, we aim to deliver comprehensive protection to a global user base. The MSG Foundations Engineering team leads the development and end-to-end implementation of infrastructure solutions, focusing on customer scenarios to enable high-volume big-data ingestion and interactive analytics for advanced security threat hunting, detection, and prevention. You will take charge of determining and developing architectural strategies and infrastructure solutions, conducting business reviews, and operating our production services. Collaboration will be essential as you work closely with other engineering teams to ensure that our services and systems are highly stable, performant, and meet the expectations of both internal and external customers and users.

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.


Qualifications

We are looking for a highly motivated, fast-learning, creative and analytical Software Engineer

  • 3+ years of experience in software development. (Required)
  • BS in Computer Science or higher, equivalent industry experience.
  • Experience in Backend services, Platform and Infra services, DevOps, Live-site handling, Large scale distributed systems, Enterprise grade systems
  • Demonstrated problem solving and debugging skills
  • Experience in building, shipping, and operating reliable system software preferably with experience in large scale high availability distributed systems.

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.

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Responsibilities

We are looking for someone who is a highly motivated, self-starter who thrives in fast paced, technical environment, has a strong customer focus and understands the importance of Live Site, has proven experience dealing with large scale architecture, and experience creating distributed systems tools of moderate-to-high complexity.

• Design and implement scalable, reliable, maintainable services

• Demonstrate strategic understanding of the timing and rationale for design choices, within the scope of work.

• Apply metrics to drive the quality and stability of code - Have a sense of pride, commitment, and personal accountability for the service quality, completeness and resulting user experience for the life of the product or service

• Work closely with geographically distributed team, including Product Managers and developers, to drive key improvements in backend Engineering System.


Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.
Industry leading healthcare
Educational resources
Discounts on products and services
Savings and investments
Maternity and paternity leave
Generous time away
Giving programs
Opportunities to network and connect

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 and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.