What is Viva?
Microsoft is embarking on a new effort to address the growing needs of employees around the world. We are building a product suite designed to address the fundamental shift in how people work, build their career, and find meaning in their workplace.
Employee engagement is undergoing a fundamental shift in response to economic, demographic, and societal changes. People want to be excited about their work, be connected to their company culture, understand how to succeed, and feel supported across a spectrum of onboarding, skilling, coaching and mentoring. Our team is dedicated to examining the employee journey and delivering software and services to make it better.
What is Viva Glint?
Viva Glint is a premier employee engagement platform, working with over 1,000 leading companies in more than 150 countries to improve the health of organizations through real-time employee feedback. Glint blends AI technology and people science to power predictive insights that help human resources, leaders, and managers quickly make sense of engagement data, connect insight with outcomes, and take meaningful action.
Today’s employees are looking to be part of an inclusive and supportive culture, inspired by their leaders, and connected to their work and each other. Companies that excel at understanding the needs of their people, and enable their managers to respond in meaningful ways, see 2.5 times higher profit, 3 times lower attrition, and 3 times lower burnout.
The Glint product recently joined Microsoft as part of the Employee Experience (EXP) organization, which includes Viva Glint, Viva Learning, Viva Pulse and the Viva Horizontals teams. We run as a start-up, encouraging team members to share a sense of ” founderism .” Team members engage directly with customers, iterate rapidly, and focus on solving the needs of employees around the world. Our culture is inclusive and casual. Our team celebrates diverse backgrounds, and values passion for serving our customers. Our team has a trusted sense of accountability and provides its members with opportunities for learning and career growth.
We are seeking an experienced Principal Software Engineer that strives to achieve excellence in architecting, designing, implementing and testing large-scale distributed systems . The ideal candidate will be someone who is a curious learner that has a penchant for getting things done, thrives on solving challenging technical problems, and enjoys working on high visibility business solutions.
Qualifications:
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
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- OR equivalent experience.
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Preferred Qualifications:
- 10+ years of hands-on experience in application developmentusing Java/C++/C#
- Demonstrated knowledge of design patterns and scalable architecture
- Proven experience in leading the design and development of large-scale software applications
- Experience with microservices and cloud development
- Experience with SQL, u nderstanding of data storage, analytics, big data handling
- Demonstrated analytical and problem-solving skills with a drive for learning new technologies
- Proven ability to drive cross-team technical discussions and decision making with a proven understanding of SDLC concepts
Software Engineering IC5 – The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $133,600 – $256,800 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $173,200 – $282,200 per year.
Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay
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. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. 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:
Responsibilities
- Architect and develop large-scale applications that can handle high request volumes with high reliability and low latency .
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams in cluding product manage ment , UI/UX design and other engineering teams t o deliver high-quality software solutions that exceed customer expectations .
- Continuously evaluate software performance, identif y performance degradation and opportunities to gain performance improvements valued by customers .
- Promote extensible and maintainable code that can be used across the organization .
- Mentor and coach engineers to help create engineering excellence grounded in our culture and values .
- Constantly learn and grow as an engineer .
- Adapt to changing project requirements with effective prioritization .