Overview
The Audit Ingestion team is responsible for building and operating large-scale distributed systems that ingest, process, and store critical audit and compliance data across Microsoft's cloud environments. These services form a foundational part of the compliance platform and are relied upon by downstream security, governance, and analytics systems. As a Software Engineer, you will design, develop, and operate highly scalable backend services and data pipelines. You will work on challenging distributed systems problems involving reliability, performance, observability, and operational excellence while collaborating with engineers across multiple platform teams. The role requires a strong sense of ownership, including participation in live-site operations and continuous service improvement.

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Responsibilities
Own components responsible for ingestion, processing, storage, and movement of large-scale audit and telemetry data. Drive reliability improvements through automation, observability, and reduction of operational toil. Participate in on-call and incident response, ensuring rapid mitigation and long-term corrective actions. Design and implement resilient distributed-system solutions that operate reliably across multiple regions and cloud environments. Collaborate on platform modernization, compliance, and scalability initiatives to support evolving business and regulatory requirements.

Qualifications
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
2+ years of skilled software engineering experience using langua

📌 Software Engineer (Hyderabad)
🏢 Microsoft
📍 Hyderabad