Software Engineer II

Microsoft
Redmond, United States of America
5 days ago

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Working hours
Regular working hours
Languages
English

Job location

Prague, United States of America

Tech stack

C
Java
JavaScript
Microsoft Online Services
C Sharp (Programming Language)
C++
Software Debugging
Software Design Documents
Digital Technology
Distributed Systems
Python
Microsoft Security Essentials
Secure Coding
Software Deployment
Data Ingestion
Backend
Information Technology
Low Latency

Job description

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.

Unified Data Ingestion (UDI) team is a central platform team for Identity organization responsible for distribution and processing of the logs produced by Identity services. UDI platform is a high scale distributed system processing trillions of logs per day in under 10 minutes on average. The team's focus is around ingestion latency, security and cost optimization.

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 and implement scalable backend services and automation workflows.
  • Drive engineering excellence through secure coding, robust testing, and maintainable design.
  • Own end-to-end feature development, ensuring reliability, diagnosability, and customer transparency.
  • Collaborate across engineering, product, and incident management teams to improve service health and operational readiness.
  • Participate in on-call rotations and live site investigations, applying structured debugging and telemetry analysis.
  • Contribute to architecture discussions, design documents, and cross-team dependency management.
  • Ensure compliance with security, privacy, and accessibility standards throughout the development and deployment process.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's/Master'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.

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.

Benefits & conditions

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.

About the company

Microsoft is a global technology company headquartered in Redmond, Washington. Our mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. We develop, license, and support a wide range of software products, services, and devices that help individuals and businesses realize their full potential.

Our flagship products include the Microsoft 365 productivity cloud, Windows operating system, Azure cloud platform, and Dynamics 365 business applications. We are also a leader in areas such as artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, developer tools, and gaming through Xbox and Game Pass.

With operations in more than 190 countries and over 220,000 employees worldwide, Microsoft is committed to responsible innovation, inclusive economic growth, and sustainability. We work closely with governments, industries, and communities to ensure that technology serves the public good and helps address some of the world’s most pressing challenges.

As we celebrate our 50th anniversary in 2025, we continue to look forward—investing in AI, cloud, and quantum computing to shape the future of work, education, and society at large scale.

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