Overview
At Microsoft, our core mission is empowering every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. Microsoft Entra sits within Microsoft Security and is at the heart of the day-to-day technology experience for billions of humans globally, playing a critical part in enabling everyone to achieve more. Our suite of products powers everything from Windows to M365, Azure to Xbox. Microsoft Entra is a dynamic and inclusive team which cares deeply about our customer experience and works to solve extraordinarily complex problems at extreme scale. If that sounds fun, we would love to meet you!
The Microsoft Entra Edge & Quality team seeks a Principal Group Engineering Manager to help tackle some of our most complex platform challenges: increasing the availability of mission-critical services and building engineering systems that support software serving over 1B people globally. This role is for a leader who is strong in distributed systems, comfortable operating at extreme scale, and able to act as a force multiplier for managers, senior engineers, and partner teams.
As a Group Engineering Manager within Identity Platform, you will** lead managers and senior engineers** delivering systems that help Microsoft engineers operate hyperscale fleets safely, correlate production changes, and use AI-driven operations to improve incident triage and resolution.
Responsibilities
Lead managers and senior engineers building platform services used by Microsoft engineering teams. Drive clarity across strategy and execution, turning outcome goals into a concrete approach for the team.
Improve the safe operation of hyperscale fleets through job orchestration, automatic risk analysis (both agent-powered analysis as part of shift-left and context aware analysis during job execution)
Develop systems that correlate change logs (from a simple deploy intent of a single service to very granular events where hundreds of thousands of machines receive unsupervised updates) to ongoing incident impact.
Architect Entra's control plane which allow engineers to execute safe changes without friction, and leverage AI and telemetry to identify high risk changes which need further review or re-design
Reduce time-to-mitigate and increase engineering focus time by building runtimes that auto-triage and auto-mitigate reported incidents and warning signals from telemetry systems.
Champion our approach of New Production Function where both development and operations are re-imagined with the availability of agents and the surrounding ecosystem.
Qualifications
Role 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 industry experience in software engineering.
Seasoned experience as a People Manager, leading teams of software engineers.
Experience managing other managers.
Experience in your career history as a hands-on engineer working with distributed systems.
Preferred Qualifications:
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 Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science.
Deep practical experience operating high-scale services in production environments. Opinions on what great observability looks like, what safe deployments look like and how to troubleshoot and diagnose high-scale systems effectively.
Examples of developing and managing requirements and making data-driven decisions. Experience in trade-off scenarios, prior ownership of a roadmap, and setting goals.
Proven ability to lead and drive consensus on complex topics across leadership, team, and organizational boundaries and to deliver outcomes – the scope of this role is division-wide.
Experience influencing executive leadership and executive stakeholders, partnering with US-based teams.
Excellent communications skills, comfortable presenting to large audiences,
Experience leading engineering teams which span geographies.
Prior experience building services which run on Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud or Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.
Prior experience working in the Identity and/or Security domains.
Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
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Software Engineering M5 - 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.
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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.**