3 days ago
Estonia (city not specified) or Czechia (city not specified)Staff+
Responsibilities
- Drive the technical vision and architecture for large-scale engineering platforms and services.
- Lead complex, cross-team engineering initiatives and translate technical challenges into strategies and actionable solutions.
- Build and evolve developer productivity solutions covering build infrastructure, automated testing, continuous integration, production validation, diagnostics, and troubleshooting.
- Develop AI-powered engineering capabilities using AI agents, intelligent automation, and emerging technologies.
- Deliver high-quality software and services while setting standards for architecture, design, implementation, and operational excellence.
- Collaborate with engineering teams, architects, product managers, and platform organizations to align technical direction and drive adoption.
- Improve reliability, performance, security, observability, and operational efficiency.
- Mentor engineers, share technical expertise, lead architectural discussions, and promote engineering excellence.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related technical field and solid technical engineering experience with coding, or equivalent experience.
- Preferred qualifications include a master’s degree with extensive technical engineering experience, or a bachelor’s degree with extensive technical engineering experience, or equivalent experience.
- Experience architecting and delivering large-scale distributed systems, cloud services, or engineering platforms.
- Strong software design and coding skills in C#, C++, Java, Python, or equivalent modern programming languages.
- Experience with cloud technologies, preferably Microsoft Azure, including distributed architectures, microservices, containers, and cloud-native development.
- Experience with developer infrastructure, CI/CD systems, build and test automation, developer tooling, or software engineering productivity platforms.
- Familiarity with AI-assisted development, LLMs, agentic workflows, or intelligent automation.
- Ability to lead technically complex initiatives, influence architecture, and drive results across multiple teams without direct authority.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, collaboration, and mentoring skills.
Benefits
- The role may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.
- Applications are accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled, with the posting open for a minimum of five days.
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.