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The Cloud & AI 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. Microsoft is one of the largest enterprise service companies in the world. TEAM OVERVIEW: The Microsoft Insider Risk Program protects our people, data, and intellectual property from internal threats that could compromise the security and integrity of the company. Built on a foundation of collaboration, innovation, and analytical rigor, the program leverages advanced detections, behavioral analytics, and cross-disciplinary expertise to identify and mitigate insider risks across Microsoft's global environments. ROLE OVERVIEW: We are looking for a talented Data Engineer II to join our growing and fast-paced Insider Risk Engineering team. In this role, you will work on developing and managing data pipelines, joining and filtering data sets, and building advanced insider risk detections to proactively identify and address potential threats.
Job Responsibility
Design, build, and optimize data pipelines to ingest, process, and prepare data for use in insider risk detection models
Join, filter, and integrate diverse data sources to create comprehensive datasets that enable effective and accurate insider risk detections
Work with large datasets, applying advanced data transformation techniques to ensure data quality and accessibility for risk detection
Develop, test, and deploy insider risk detection models based on data-driven insights to proactively identify anomalous or risky behavior patterns
Collaborate with insider risk team members to define and refine detection use cases, ensuring they are accurate, scalable, and aligned with business needs
Share knowledge and actively contribute ideas in team technical discussions
Maintain and monitor insider risk engineering systems to ensure reliable operation, security, and compliance with internal engineering standards and policies
Join on-call rotations, lead incident response, and drive thorough root-cause analysis
Document data processes, detection workflows, and system configurations to support future development and maintenance
Use development and coding best practices (e.g., reusable, modular)
Own end-to-end quality for the code you deliver, including testing and DevOps automation
Requirements
Master's Degree in Computer Science, Math, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field AND 1+ year(s) experience in business analytics, data science, software development, data modeling, or data engineering
OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Math, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field AND 2+ years experience in business analytics, data science, software development, data modeling, or data engineering
OR equivalent experience
Candidates must be able to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements
Microsoft Cloud Background Check
Citizenship & Citizenship Verification
Nice to have
4+ years of experience in data engineering, data science, or a hybrid data engineering/data science role
Proficiency in query languages (e.g., SQL, KQL)
Experience with object-oriented programming languages (e.g., Python, C#, Java, or C++)
Experience with security product usage such as Insider Risk Management or Sentinel
Demonstrated ability to build and manage data systems in the cloud
Experience with big data systems and tools, such as PySpark, Databricks, or Azure Synapse
Familiar with data engineering best practices like layered data architecture, data modeling, and developing reliable and scalable data pipelines
Strong understanding of engineering and security compliance standards, with experience in regulated environments
Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail
Experienced working within agile frameworks such as Scrum and Kanban