Overview

Azure DevOps (https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/devops) is a suite of modern development services that enables software development teams to plan smarter, collaborate more effectively, and deliver faster with high-quality results. It offers cloud-hosted private Git repos, proven agile work tracking system, comprehensive CI/CD capabilities, and robust testing tools to empower developers to build innovative software seamlessly. 

We are looking for Software Engineers for multiple teams in Azure DevOps in Prague. They will work on Authentication, Authorization, Billing, or Security.  

In this role, you will be focused on enhancing the health, performance, and scalability of our backend services which will help us deliver great experience for software development teams.  

As a team, we are interested in smart, self-driven individuals, with a positive can-do attitude, who come to work with a smile and enjoy writing clean and elegant code and are excited about providing support to the customers. We believe AI is fundamentally disrupting how software gets built, and we're hiring engineers who share that conviction and curiosity. If you're already experimenting with the latest LLM-powered tools and excited to explore uncharted territory in developer productivity, we want to talk.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test and support features, experiences.  

• Collaborate on the design and development of features and solutions, contributing to technical direction across business scenarios. 

• Support highly available services used by top companies and millions of developers on a daily basis.  

• Troubleshooting of complex issues through the entire tech stack including frontend and database layers.  

• Participate in on-call rotations with your team. Triage and respond to issues and advocate for opportunities to improve service health.  

• Collaborate through pairing and code reviews and contribute to a culture of learning and growth. 

Qualifications

Required Qualifications 

• You’ve done this before – Solid software development experience. 

• You can code - Demonstrable experience with C#, C++, Java or any other OOP language.  

• You have good collaboration skills – Strong analytical skills as well as communication skills both verbal and written. We are a distributed team, so we are extra mindful about communication. 

• You’re a professional engineer – you understand that it’s not enough to write code that works; it also must be well-designed, easy to test, and easy to add to over time. 

• You want to learn to get things done - Ability to understand unfamiliar code bases, debug client and service side applications (including database stored procedures). 

Preferred Qualifications 

• Knowledge and experience with Microsoft Azure, AWS or similar cloud computing platforms is preferred. 

• Experience with SQL performance tuning (preferably Microsoft SQL Server).  

• Solid understanding of testing principles.  

• Ability to prioritize and handle multiple tasks completely and independently and generate clarity in ambiguous situations.  

• Troubleshooting skills across network, application, caching, queuing, load-balancing storage and distributed services layers.  

This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

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 with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.