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. Within IAM Protect, the Production tenant management and security data platform team is responsible for collecting and managing the required telemetry needed for Securing the Entra tenants. We are looking to hire a Software Engineer with data platform/data engineering experience that will join our mission of protecting Microsoft Cloud by building and operating security services that will enforce security policies across thousands of services. In this role, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the future of security at Microsoft and leveraging your insights to protect Microsoft services and customers. Your primary focus will be on Design, develop, and maintain scalable data pipelines and systems to support various business needs and objectives. Our culture promotes diversity, multiculturalism, and inclusion and is clearly reflected in all of things we do. Diversity is more than a commitment for us - it is the foundation of what we do. Our team has a sense of accountability and provides its members many opportunities for learning and career growth. 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. In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day. **Responsibilities** + Collaborate with peer teams to gather and integrate data from various sources to support the data needs for security attack graph. + Builds scalable data models and data pipelines to extract, load and transform data, ensures secure data storage, with focus on data quality and compliance. + Implement data validation and quality assurance processes to ensure the accuracy and reliability of the data. + Provide the required data with the aim to support the extension of security attack graph tooling to drive analysis and eviction of attackers. + Collaborate with other team members to provide analysis of large data sets to determine security risk for Microsoft. + Understand Microsoft security and privacy guidelines and bring the system in compliance. + Embody our Culture and Values. **Qualifications** **Required Qualifications:** + Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 2+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python. + OR equivalent experience. + 2+ years of experience with data pipelining and transformation technologies such as Spark and experience on Azure Data tech stack. + 2+ years hands-on experience with big data technologies as well as data analytics tools. + 2+ years experience working in cyber security. **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 Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter. **Additional or Preferred Qualifications:** + Experience with cyber security practices such as identity and access management (IAM), authentication and authorization systems. + Experience with Graph database technology, especially Neo4j. Software Engineering IC3 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $98,300 - $193,200 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $127,200 - $208,800 per year. Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay Microsoft will accept applications for the role until March 12, 2025. 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 (https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/accessibility.html) .