1 month ago
Czechia (city not specified)Senior
Responsibilities
- Own and evolve billing and payment systems serving millions of GitHub users while driving scalable, reliable architectural decisions.
- Lead detection and mitigation of billing abuse through signals, tooling, and platform strategies.
- Develop and operate backend services and APIs, with occasional frontend work as needed.
- Create and guide testing plans, success metrics, customer-feedback integration, and architecture that meets security and compliance standards.
- Mentor engineers through pairing, feedback, code review, and technical leadership.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams and Microsoft stakeholders on shared technical and design problems.
- Participate in on-call rotations, lead incident response, and drive reliability improvements.
Requirements
- Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, Computer Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
- Proven software engineering or related technical experience maintaining and delivering production software using languages such as C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Go, Ruby, Rust, or Python.
- Experience designing and operating services on cloud platforms such as Azure, including infrastructure and deployment considerations.
- Preferred: hands-on experience building and operating Ruby and/or Go services at scale in high-traffic production environments.
- Preferred: experience with JavaScript and frontend frameworks such as React.
- Preferred: experience with payments, billing, fraud detection, compliance, or other high-stakes transactional systems.
- Preferred: familiarity with AI-assisted development workflows, including GitHub Copilot and LLM-based tooling.
- Preferred: experience driving technical decisions across teams through RFCs, design documents, and asynchronous collaboration.
- Preferred: experience mentoring engineers and raising quality through code review, pairing, and technical leadership.
Benefits
- Remote-first, distributed team environment.
- The position is based in Czechia and offers a stated annual base-pay range of Kč 1,338,000.00 to Kč 2,448,000.00; certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.
About Microsoft
Microsoft develops operating systems, productivity software, cloud services, developer tools, and consumer devices for individuals, enterprises, and governments. Its main products include Windows, Microsoft 365, Azure, Visual Studio/GitHub, Xbox, and LinkedIn; revenue comes from software subscriptions and licenses, cloud consumption, hardware sales, and advertising. Founded in 1975 and headquartered in Redmond, Washington, Microsoft is a public company traded on Nasdaq.