Data Engineer 2

30 October 2025
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Overview 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. Do you love the excitement and learning opportunity to study, analyze, and deal with the most complex threats to digital security in today’s world? Do you have the “learner” mindset, are willing to un-learn previous skills and learn new ones every day? Are you passionate about solving the challenges of security response teams?

If yes, then this opportunity is for you. The Telemetry Enforcement Engineering team, within Cyber Defense Operations is looking for a Data Engineer to drive the centralization of access and curation of critical security data while applying operational rigor to ensure real-time availability and accuracy of thousands of mission-critical data sources.

About CDO – Cyber Defense Operations. An organization led by Microsoft’s Chief Information Security Officer enables Microsoft to deliver the most trusted software and services. The CDO vision is to ensure all information and services are protected, secured, and available for appropriate use through innovation and a robust risk & management framework.

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. Qualifications Required Minimum Qualifications: 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.

1+ years of experience in a Data Engineer or Software Engineer role with a focus on cloud-based big data processing. 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: 3+ years of experience in data engineering3+ years of hands-on experience with Microsoft Kusto clusters (KQL), Azure Cosmos DB, Azure Access Control methods3+ years assisting in tuning and optimizing data source and data pipeline availability rules and alerts. 3+ years collaborating with IT, DevOps, and other teams to remediate vulnerabilities and improve security controls/policies. 3+ year pipeline experience, Synapse/Python3+ years of experience of DRI/Live site Engagement/Oncall experience8+ years of security operations work experience, with 5 years of experience collaborating with IR/SOC.

Data Engineering IC3 – The typical base pay range for this role across the U. S. is USD $100,600 – $199,000 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 $131,400 – $215,400 per year.


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