Principal Software Engineer
Job Description
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. Microsoft Entra sits within our Security, Compliance, Identity and Management Division and is at the heart of the day-to-day technology experience for billions of humans globally, playing a critical part in enabling everyone to achieve more. Our suite of products powers everything from Windows to Office, Azure to Xbox. Microsoft Entra is a dynamic and inclusive team which cares deeply about our customer experience and works to solve extraordinarily complex problems at extreme scale. If that sounds fun, we would love to meet you! #identityjobs The Intelligent Data Experience (IDX) team under Identity Platform is looking for a Principal Software Engineer to join us and help tackle some of our most complex problems. You'd be part of our Platform team, which handles compliant, custom data ingestion pipelines processing more than two trillion Entra logs per day. These logs support the entire Identity platform and external teams, helping build better software for over one billion humans worldwide. Are you passionate about distributed systems, and how to build and run them at extreme scale? Are you curious, a learner, someone who wants to grow in the craft of software engineering?
Locations
- Prague (CEE HQ), Prague, Czech Republic, Prague (CEE HQ), Prague, Czech Republic
Salary
Salary not disclosed
Required Qualifications
- Role Requirements Principal/Lead Engineer level experience in software engineering. Highly Valued Skills Strong track record as a hands-on engineer designing and delivering elegant solutions to meet complex design and architectural challenges in a cloud services environment. Deep practical experience operating high-scale services in production environments. You’ve got hard-earned experience and opinions on what great observability looks like, what safe deployments look like and whether to push code on Fridays. Excellent communications skills, comfortable presenting to large audiences and customers. Prior experience with performance analysis and optimization of web services and software. Prior experience building services which run on Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud or Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. Prior experience working in the Identity and/or Security domains (degree)
- Principal/Lead Engineer level experience in software engineering. (degree)
- Strong track record as a hands-on engineer designing and delivering elegant solutions to meet complex design and architectural challenges in a cloud services environment. (degree)
- Deep practical experience operating high-scale services in production environments. You’ve got hard-earned experience and opinions on what great observability looks like, what safe deployments look like and whether to push code on Fridays. (degree)
- Excellent communications skills, comfortable presenting to large audiences and customers. (degree)
- Prior experience with performance analysis and optimization of web services and software. (degree)
- Prior experience building services which run on Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud or Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. (degree)
- Prior experience working in the Identity and/or Security domains (degree)
Travel Requirements
Up to 100% work from home
