**Overview**

The Defender Experts (DEX) Research team is at the forefront of Microsoft’s threat protection strategy, combining world-class hunting expertise with AI-driven analytics to protect customers from advanced cyberattacks. Our mission is to move protection left—disrupting threats early, before damage occurs—by transforming raw signals into intelligence that powers detection, disruption, and customer trust.

**Responsibilities**

Job Responsibilities

+ Design and build scalable data platforms and pipelines to process large-scale datasets across distributed systems.
+ Develop data processing and analytics solutions to derive insights from complex and high-volume data.
+ Build and maintain batch and streaming pipelines using modern data technologies (e.g., Spark, Kafka).
+ Design and implement graph-based data models, enabling efficient representation of relationships across entities.
+ Develop graph traversal and relationship analysis...