Data Engineer

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 it's partner's 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 Microsoft's engineering teams to ingest, protect, and distribute Microsoft products at scale. We are at the forefront of ensuring that Microsoft's 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 you're 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

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.
• 1-3 years experience in business analytics, software development or data engineering work.
• Experience using a variety of data stores, like RDBMS, in-memory caches or document Databases.
• Proficiency with SQL and NoSQL.
• Experience developing on cloud platforms (i.e. Azure, AWS) in a continuous delivery environment.
• Strong problem solving, implementation and communication skills.
• Strong intellectual curiosity and passion for learning new technologies.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with data engineering projects with firm sense of accountability and ownership.
• Experience in ETL/ELT, Data warehousing, data pipelines and/ or Business Intelligence Development.
• Experience using ML, anomaly detection, predictive analysis, exploratory data analysis.
• An understanding of the value of Data, data exploration and the benefits of a data-driven organizational culture.
• Business Intelligence experience or visualization with tools such as Power BI is also beneficial.
• Experience implementing data systems in C#/Python/Scala or similar.
• Basic Knowledge on Microsoft Dynamics Platform.