Senior Software Engineer
Software Engineering
Prague, Czechia
Our team works on the Safe Deployment Process (SDP) across Microsoft Entra's identity services, the services that sign-in and access depend on every day. We investigate how these services ship change (binaries, configuration, feature flags, and secrets), benchmark the real deployment mechanics against SDP policy, and surface the gaps that let risky changes reach production. We partner with service teams to raise the safety bar, working deep in the deployment stack: release orchestration, staged rollouts, automated health gates, and change telemetry. We turn that understanding into concrete engineering and policy improvements. If you want to see how change actually flows through a large, high-throughput identity platform and help make it measurably safer, this is the team.
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Responsibilities
- Drive end-to-end deployment investigations for identity services, tracing how binaries, config, and feature flags reach production and documenting the real mechanics against SDP policy.
- Identify and help close deployment-safety gaps by analyzing staged rollouts, automated health gates, and rollback paths, then designing and landing the engineering fixes that strengthen them.
- Build the data foundation for deployment safety, writing queries and tooling across change, pipeline, and telemetry sources to turn deployment behavior into measurable signal.
- Partner directly with service teams to validate findings, agree on remediations, and shepherd fixes to completion across organizational boundaries.
- Raise the SDP bar broadly by codifying patterns, sharpening the compliance benchmark, and improving the methodology other engineers reuse.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND solid technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience.
- Senior experience building, operating, or shipping large-scale distributed or cloud services in a production environment.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines, release orchestration, or safe-deployment / progressive-rollout systems.
- Proficiency querying and analyzing operational data at scale (e.g., Kusto/KQL or similar) to reason about system behavior.
- Demonstrated ability to independently reverse-engineer unfamiliar, sparsely-documented production systems and communicate findings clearly to other engineering teams.
Other Requirements:
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 background and Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
Software Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across Czechia is Kč 1,338,000.00 - Kč 2,448,000.00 per year. Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.
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https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/corporate-pay/czech-republic-corporate-pay.html
This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.
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