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Microsoft Security aspires to make the world a safer place for all-reshaping security and empowering every user, customer, and developer with simplified, end-to-end solutions. Microsoft Entra, builds the identity and network access platform that underpins Microsoft’s Zero Trust strategy. Entra powers secure access for any identity to any resource, anywhere-across hybrid and multicloud environments. We are serving billions of authentications daily with extreme scale and availability targets exceeding 99.99%. As part of the Edge Services within Microsoft Entra organization, we design and operate the critical infrastructure that forms the secure front door to Entra's identity services. Our team owns foundational components - each engineered to deliver secure, scalable, reliable and observable traffic management across Microsoft's global footprint.\nWe are seeking a Principal Software Engineer to turn the multi-year roadmap into clear designs, guide architecture decisions across the Control Plane and Foundational Gateway, and bring other teams in Edge Services and across Identity along with you.\nMicrosoft’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.\nResponsibilities\nContribute and set the technical direction for IDTE's traffic, DNS and ingress platform. \nBuild a gateway that protects itself and contains failures. You will contribute to and drive enforcement at the perimeter and predictable recovery when issues arise, without compromising availability, security or latency.\nAutomate platform growth and support operations through automated, auditable workflows instead of manual, expert-driven steps.\nChampion observability and AI-assisted operations. Build end-to-end routing visibility that enables engineers and AI tools to trace any request or configuration change, identify problems faster and reduce on-call workload.\nRaise the engineering bar by mentoring senior engineers, leading design and incident reviews, and setting the standard for reliability, security and operations in a globally distributed service.\nQualifications\nRequired Qualifications:\nBachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field, along with proven experience in software engineering using C#, C++, Java, or other object-oriented programming languages.\nCollaboration skills with the ability to work effectively across local and global teams within Microsoft.\nAccountability and ownership of areas / products. \nPractical experience with cloud platforms such as Microsoft Azure, AWS, or equivalent. \nKnowledge of troubleshooting across networking, application layers, caching, load balancing, and distributed systems. \nExperience working with SQL-like query languages. \nPractical experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools and methodologies. \nDemonstrated ability to quickly learn and adapt to new technologies. \nOther Requirements:\nAbility 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.\n\nSoftware Engineering IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across Czechia is Kč 1,983,000.00 - Kč 3,553,000.00 per year. Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.\nFind additional benefits and pay information here:\nhttps://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/corporate-pay/czech-republic-corporate-pay.html\nThis position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.\nMicrosoft is an equal opportunity employer. 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