Software Engineer II

Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

Date posted

Nov 03, 2025

Job number

1902810

Work site

4 days / week in-office

Travel

None

Role type

Individual Contributor

Profession

Software Engineering

Discipline

Software Engineering

Employment type

Full-Time

Does pioneering new and innovative ways to collect and showcase key customer data sound exciting to you? Are you passionate about data and do you feel we have been missing the opportunity to be more data-informed at Microsoft? Do you want to contribute to an effort that is one of the most critical for the future success of Microsoft and E+D? If so, the Insights, Data Engineering & Analytics (IDEAs) team might be an excellent place for you to grow your career. Be part of the team building platform services handling millions of users and exabytes of data. This is not just some large-scale web service: the implementation ranks among the world's largest and state of the art distributed systems, spanning across data centers around the world. The Insights, Data Engineering & Analytics team's goal is to champion a data-informed culture; to inspire and enable the entire E+D organization to make more informed decisions through data. We see this effort as a huge opportunity in providing information to the organization that will improve efficiency, empowerment, and help Microsoft win in the critical cloud business sector.

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.

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.
• Strong coding skills in C++, C#, Java. Any language experience is fine if you are detail-focused with strong design principles and implementation skills.
• 2+ years of experience with modern web technologies such as JavaScript, , and React.
• Experience with data engineering technologies such as Spark, Kafka, Kusto, Flink or Azure Data Factory.
• Experience working with Kubernetes/AKS.
• Experience of working on highly scalable services.
• Experience of working on Win32, iOS/Mac or Android is considered a plus.
• Experience working collaboratively with a team of engineers and a strong passion for learning.

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.

Preferred Qualifications:

• High quality software design & development experience of 3+ years.
• Possess great judgement, solid engineering skills, and ability and desire to learn and go deep into new technologies.
• Versatile engineer who can seamlessly work across different platforms.
• Passionate about designing and building compelling solutions to connect millions of users with the power of Microsoft 365.
• Ambitious about being analytical and data-informed and learn by experimenting.
• Obsessed about great customer experiences and outcomes.
• Looked up as a technical go-to person in your organization.
• Great communicator and capable of clearly conveying complex issues, ideas, and concepts.

• Be responsible for the technical leadership and end-to-end development of the data solutions that will help E+D and SCI gain the strategic insights we need to deliver the most optimal user experience and to quickly adapt to market conditions that are constantly evolving.
• your engineering and analytical skills to petabyte scale data problems using the latest and most modern data analytics technologies on an ever-increasing number of data signals produced by the different products part of the M365 suite and our partners across the company.
• Face tough engineering challenges every day as we deal with very large, disparate and usually complex data sets as we aim to provide an efficient and reliable platform for data wrangling and curation.
• Integrate of different data democratization and visualization techniques that will enable us to extract even the most deeply embedded insights from this data to then make those insights readily available to everyone in our organization, affording them the flexibility of analyzing said data in a self-service manner.

Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.

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Industry leading healthcare

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Educational resources

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Discounts on products and services

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Savings and investments

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Maternity and paternity leave

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Generous time away

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Giving programs

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Opportunities to network and connect

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