Software Engineering Student Workers Opportunities

🌍 Overview

Location: Czech Republic

Program Start Date: January/February 2026
Duration: 5 months 
Schedule: Part-time (24 hours/week)
Program Type: Student Worker

Come build community, explore your passions, and do your best work at Microsoft with fellow student workers from across the region. This opportunity will allow you to bring your aspirations, talent, and potential—and your excitement for the journey ahead.

As a Student Worker in the Czech Republic, you will join either the Identity and Network Access or Core AI team, contributing to impactful projects that shape the future of secure infrastructure and intelligent systems. You will collaborate with experienced engineers and researchers, gaining exposure to real-world development cycles, tools, and technologies.

This program is designed to support your academic journey while offering meaningful work experience. You will be empowered to learn, grow, and make a difference—whether you're building scalable systems, exploring artificial intelligence models, or improving access and identity frameworks.

Microsoft’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. Learn more about our cultural attributes 

✅ Required

Candidates must meet all of the following criteria:

• Currently enrolled in a full-time Bachelor's or Master's program in Computer Science, Data Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.
• You must be legally authorised to work in Czech Republic to be eligible for this role. (Legally authorised = has citizenship or has been granted a valid visa or work permit).
• Availability to work part-time (up to 24 hours/week) for the full duration of the program .
• One year of programming experience in an object-oriented language (e.g., C#, Python, Java, C++, JavaScript, etc.).
• Strong written and verbal communication skills in English.

⭐ Preferred

These qualifications will strengthen your application:

• Prior internship or project experience in artificial intelligence, machine learning, security, compliance, incident response or data analytics.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms (e.g., Azure, Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform) 
• Experience with version control systems like Git and collaborative development workflows.
• Passion for innovation and eagerness to contribute to real-world product development.
• Familiarity with identity and access management concepts or experience using Azure Active Directory, Dev Box, or virtualization tools.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.

Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.

🎯 Responsibilities

• Apply engineering principles to solve complex problems through sound and creative engineering.
• Work with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a feature.
• Quickly learns new engineering methods and incorporates them into work processes.
• Seek feedback and apply internal or industry best practices to improve technical solutions.
• Demonstrate skill in time management and completing software projects in a cooperative team environment.
• Review current developments and proactively seek new knowledge that will improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while also driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale.