New 
Software Engineer II
 Microsoft | |
 United States, Washington, Redmond | |
 Sep 26, 2025 | |
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OverviewSecurity 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. 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. The COO organization at Microsoft plays a pivotal role in driving operational excellence and transformation across the company. Its mission centers on creating a blueprint for transforming Microsoft through AI and continuous improvement (CI). We're seeking a forwardthinking Software Engineer II with deep experience in AIOpscentric, cloud data architecture. You'll design and deliver the data foundations for semi and fully autonomous fraud and abuse detection, leveraging LLMs, agentic AI, retrievalaugmented generation (RAG), semantic search, and lowlatency context retrieval. Your work will power realtime decisioning and platform resilience by building scalable, highthroughput systems that integrate diverse realtime and nearrealtime data sources, enabling agents to reason, adapt, and act in dynamic environments. 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.
ResponsibilitiesArchitect and implement data systems that support Agentic AI workflows, including RAG pipelines and semantic memory. Design and optimize vector database solutions for context-aware retrieval and embedding storage. Build real-time and near-real-time data ingestion pipelines from diverse sources (e.g., telemetry, APIs, user interactions). Develop automation frameworks for data processing, transformation, and enrichment. Collaborate with data engineering, data science, and analytics teams to deliver seamless integration across data pipelines, model training, LLMs, inference services, MCP servers, and continuous feedback loops. Implement semantic search capabilities using embeddings, transformers, and large dataset optimization techniques. Ensure data quality, lineage, and governance across agentic systems. Monitor and improve system performance, scalability, and reliability in production environments. Embody ourCulture&Values | |