Principal Engineer

Prague (CEE HQ), Prague, Czech Republic

Date posted

Sep 10, 2025

Job number

1872431

Work site

3 days / week in-office

Travel

0-25%

Role type

Individual Contributor

Profession

Software Engineering

Discipline

Software Engineering

Employment type

Full-Time

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.

HM Team Description:

The Identity Platform Runtime Team is part of the Microsoft Entra organization (formerly called Azure Active Directory), which provides the VM and Container based runtimes for large scale Identity Services. Team working on designing and developing next generation for container-based platform that set high bar for security, reliability and efficiency

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.

At least 10 years' relevant experience in program management, and at least 4 years as a people manager.

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.

Our team is focusing on enhancing our Identity runtime platform in dimensions such developer experience, security reliability and efficiency for large-scale services. We are looking for experienced software engineers that can help us with the challenging task of delivering new capabilities and enhance existing ones in this highly complex area. Responsibilities include:
• Work with stakeholders to understand their needs, get their input, and help design solutions that meet their needs.
• Design and Implement processes and tools to operate with large fleet of Kubernetes cluster around the world.
• Maintain the live site services, check system health, find areas of improvement, develop new or better live site tools.
• Assist with planning the work, dependencies, and execution reporting.
• Collaborate with peers, program managers and stake holders towards delivering solutions that meet our business objectives.

Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.

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Industry leading healthcare

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Educational resources

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Discounts on products and services

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Savings and investments

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Maternity and paternity leave

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Generous time away

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Giving programs

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Opportunities to network and connect

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.