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 want to be a Data Engineer on an elite Data Science team? Do you want to build data solutions that power AI and Data Analytics of a global Security Product? Do you want your work to be impactful on millions of users? Join us and become part of a winning Data Science team that builds the “brain” of one of Microsoft’s most exciting security products, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint (MDE). As cyber-attacks have become more sophisticated, MDE helps enterprises detect, investigate, and automatically disrupt advanced attacks and data breaches on their networks. Our team is responsible for developing and deploying Machine Learning (ML) models that protect organizations worldwide and owning Data Analytics systems that facilitate data-driven decisions and operational excellence. If you are an excellent engineer with a background in Big Data, and are passionate about engineering for Data Science, we would like to talk to you! 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.

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

Create and maintain robust Big Data pipelines for Analytics and ML systems. Optimize performance of Big Data scripts and queries.

Create monitoring and reporting infrastructure.

Develop systems that facilitate Data Science activities such as Analytics and Feature Extraction.

Qualifications

• 2+ Years of experience as a Software Engineer Excellent logical reasoning, problem solving and debugging skills

• A university degree in Computer Science or in a related technical discipline

• Experience with developing software in distributed, cloud-based systems Interest in Data Science and Cyber Security A team player with strong communication skills and drive for results

• 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.

• Preferred qualifications:

• Experience with Big Data systems, Data Pipelines and Reporting Experience with Python, SQL, and other scripting languages.

• Azure, Cosmos DB, Spark, AML, Azure Data Explorer, KQL C# and Microsoft .NET Knowledge in ML and Data Science Knowledge in Cyber Security

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