Microsoft
Software Engineer II
MicrosoftIndia11 hours ago
Full-timeEngineering, Information Technology
Cyber threats are a growing concern, affecting people in every aspect of life. As technology becomes more essential to our daily routines, the risks of attacks and scams continue to rise.

If you're passionate about protecting users through intuitive and effective cybersecurity solutions, we’d love to have you on our team!

We are the Microsoft 365 Security team—a collaborative, innovative, and entrepreneurial group dedicated to building cutting-edge cybersecurity applications and services. Our mission is to create seamless, user-friendly protection for consumers and information workers, ensuring security is both powerful and accessible. We leverage Big Data, AI, and ML to power world-class cloud services, including industry-leading email and messaging protection solutions. These offerings play a crucial role in Microsoft 365’s success and represent exciting growth opportunities for Microsoft.

Our team thrives on customer success, and we are passionate about helping people stay safe online. We take pride in our diverse backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives—because we believe they drive the best solutions. Collaboration, continuous learning, and a shared commitment to innovation define our culture. As Microsoft embraces transformation, we bring a growth mindset to everything we do.

If you're excited about making a real impact in cybersecurity, we’d love to hear from you!

Responsibilities

Responsibilities –

  • Develop features to support the enterprise and security scenarios in Windows.
  • Reproducing, debugging and fixing customer-reported problems.
  • Crafting high-quality, bug-free fixes with minimum application compatibility risk.
  • Adding new features in Windows.
  • Prioritizing your collection of work and delivering fixes in a timely fashion to meet deadlines.
  • Collaborating with escalation engineers and other partner teams across Microsoft to debug, develop, test and ship updates.
  • Finding ways to improve products, tools, and processes for long-term benefit for Microsoft and customers.
  • Mentoring junior engineers in the team.

Qualifications

Required

  • Bachelor’s / Master’s degree in Computer Science or Engineering or Mathematics or IT technical discipline.
  • 5+ years of programming experience in more backend tech stacks like .NET / Java / C# /C++
  • Experience building and shipping production grade software or services.
  • Experience building and operating online services and fault-tolerant distributed systems.
  • Experience in system design.
  • Experience in Cloud environment.
  • Understanding of data structures, algorithms, and distributed systems.
  • Good communication skills to collaborate with global teams.

Other Requirements

  • Demonstrated results working with a global team.
  • Overall understanding of Azure/Cloud infrastructure is desirable.
  • Proven communication skills, both verbal and written.
  • The ability to work well in a diverse, global, team-focused environment

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, 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.

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