Software Engineer II & Senior Software Engineer - Microsoft (Entra)

Overview

Security 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.

We are hiring for several Software Engineer II and Senior Software Engineers to be part of this organisation in Microsoft Czechia

Team Description

The Entra Application Governance team builds the core capabilities that help enterprises discover, manage, govern, and secure application identities at scale. As organizations increasingly adopt AI-powered applications, agents, and non-human identities, our mission is expanding to help customers securely govern and manage the next generation of software.

We are building the security and governance foundations for applications, AI agents, and machine identities, helping enterprises apply least-privilege access, visibility, and policy controls across increasingly complex cloud environments. This includes emerging governance challenges around autonomous software, non-human identities, and AI-driven access patterns.

You will own and deliver critical platform capabilities that directly impact customer security, compliance, and operational efficiency. You will work at the intersection of cloud-scale engineering, identity, security, and AI, helping define how enterprises securely adopt the next generation of intelligent software. This role requires strong engineering fundamentals, sound judgment in security-sensitive domains, and the ability to drive work independently across complex systems.

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.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and evolve platform services that help customers understand, govern, and secure permissions across applications, AI workloads, and automated systems.

• Own end-to-end delivery of features: design, implementation, testing, rollout, monitoring, and live-site reliability.

• Translate security, compliance, and enterprise governance requirements into scalable, maintainable technical solutions.

• Drive engineering quality through design reviews, code reviews, and operational best practices.

• Identify and mitigate security risks, scalability bottlenecks, and reliability gaps in governance-critical systems.

• Actively contribute to operational excellence: health metrics, alerting, incident response, root-cause analysis, and long-term fixes.

• Collaborate closely with product managers, partner teams, and adjacent Entra services to deliver cohesive customer experiences.

• Mentor and support other engineers; raise the overall engineering bar through knowledge sharing and technical leadership.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience.

• Relevant professional software engineering experience building and operating production systems.

• Strong coding skills in C#, Java, or a comparable object-oriented language.

• Experience designing and operating cloud-based services and distributed systems.

• Demonstrated understanding of system design, performance, reliability, and security.

• Ability to independently own complex problem areas and deliver results with minimal oversight.

• Good collaboration and communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications:

Experience or strong interest in identity security, AI security, governance, or authorization systems. Familiarity with standards and protocols such as OAuth, OpenID Connect, SAML, SCIM, JWT. Experience building and operating RESTful APIs, microservices, and large-scale cloud platforms. Prior experience mentoring engineers or leading technical initiatives within a team.

Qualifications - 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 IC3 - The typical base pay range for this role across Czechia is Kč 966,000.00 - Kč 1,727,000.00 per year. Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.

Find additional benefits and pay information here:
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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