Data Engineer II

** 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.

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.

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*
* + 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 Dev Ops automation.

** Qualifications*
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* Required Qualifications:

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* + 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.

** Other Requirements:*
* + Candidates must be able 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:

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** Microsoft Cloud Background Check:
** This position will be required to pass the Microsoft…