Software Engineer II

Overview 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. Are you excited about building capabilities that help protect our customers from cybersecurity threats Making security incident detection and investigation autonomous Do you enjoy designing & building full-stack products using technologies ranging from backend services and APIs for optimized data retrieval and business logic, to LLM-based agentic workflows Do you thrive in a collaborative and data-driven environment Do you enjoy working with talented feature teams including software engineers, product managers, and security researchers If so, you'll love our collaborative, agile, and fun group with a startup mindset. We are part of the Defender Experts product unit (part of Microsoft’s Security division). Our m [... source excerpt omitted ...] red intelligence. We are committed to defending Microsoft customers from cyber-attacks as well as providing sophisticated capabilities to protect their digital assets.  Making our customers succeed with our solutions is what excites us every day! We are a diverse group with people from a wide variety of backgrounds, prior work & life experiences. We foster a strong culture of learning & a collaborative work environment. We are building multiple managed services/product offerings for Enterprise customers. Our products combine backend/cloud services, Big Data processing, state-of-the-art Generative AI/LLMs, and Agentic Workflows to deliver scalable and intelligent solutions. With [... source excerpt omitted ...] 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. Responsibilities We are looking for a Software Engineer II to join the engineering team in the Defender Experts Organization. Key responsibilities include the following. Design, implement and deploy highly scalable real time data processing cloud services utilizing Azure services. Rapidly prototype and experiment with full stack features that utilize Web API, React based front end etc. Help the team in all aspects of building cloud systems from inception to productization to monitoring in production. Le