Senior Software Engineer

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Viva Insights helps people and businesses thrive with insights, recommendations and solutions that are integrated into Microsoft Teams and Outlook to improve productivity and wellbeing. We help managers and leaders gain data-driven visibility into how work patterns affect AI transformation, wellbeing, productivity, and business performance, with default safeguards like de-identification, aggregation, and differential privacy to protect individual privacy. We help millions of people work smarter and achieve balance using personalized solutions designed to help teams collaborate more effectively, preserve time for uninterrupted work, and disconnect at the end of the day. Watch our short product video to learn more.

We will only achieve our mission of transforming how others work if we live our culture. We start with becoming learners in all things and apply that mindset to learning about our customers, being diverse and inclusive, working together as one, and—ultimately—making a difference in the world.

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.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 7+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
  • OR equivalent experience.
• Proficiency in object-oriented development, with C# and .Net Framework (preferred) or any other object-oriented programming languages such as Java, C++ or related.
• Strong computer science fundamentals and proven algorithm design capability.
• Good technical, cross group collaboration and communication skills.
• Hands-on experience in architectural design and large-scale systems.

Other Requirements:
Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings:

• Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
  • OR Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
  • OR equivalent experience.

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Running a global world class service that is tightly integrated with mission critical productivity apps with millions of active users presents broad and evolving challenges. We’re constantly in need of improving our platform and cloud services to meet the growing demands of a large user base that are rapidly expanding. We have complex multi-tiered applications running off distributed micro-services, handling billions of user interactions every day, generating petabytes of data that require analysis and transformation, spanned across hundreds of thousands of machines.

As a Senior Software Engineer, your key responsibilities include the following:

• Building future looking features in the platform and product which provide value to customers.
• Modernizing our systems to ensure that our developers can work with the newest and best technology.
• Refactoring and optimizing our computations and framework to improve our performance and scalability so that we can deliver cost-effective features.
• Developing tools to analyze, monitor and recover our services to increase the resiliency of our services.
• Improving our engineering systems to ensure that our growing and global development team can build, deploy and manage our service in a secure and compliant manner.
• Building and improving systems that enable big data analysis to measure user and organizational productivity and customer engagement.