Senior Software Engineer - Engineering Systems

Overview

Viva Engage connects people through communities, bringing leaders and employees together to share knowledge, clarify priorities, and build relationships. Viva Engage (formerly Yammer) is the premier tool to create multi-directional dialogue between tens of millions of employees worldwide every month.

Engage team members are at the forefront of driving AI applications and copilot adoption to make communication and information sharing easy and authentic. Our work supports top challenges for our customers, including digital safety, trusted security standards, and deep analytics to help our customers maximize reach, reduce inefficiencies, and create a thriving organizational culture. We would love to have you join the team driving innovation, connection, and community for our valued global customers.

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. 

Responsibilities

Engage's Engineering System team builds the technology that scales Engage to its millions of customers. You will help us build the tools necessary to accelerate our engineering teams and orchestrate the cloud-based systems that power Engage. We deploy new code every day to our tens of millions of users and are constantly innovating to improve our systems and deliver a delightful experience to Engage's developers.

Our Stack

Linux on Azure

Java and Ruby micro services, deployed as docker containers

Graph QL, Dropwizard, Rails REST APIs

Postgres/CosmosDB/Kafka/RabbitMQ/Redis storage and queuing

Mesos container orchestration, HAProxy-based service mesh

Qualifications

Required 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 equivalent experience.
• Experience with containers and container orchestration systems.
• Experience operating and evolving large-scale distributed systems in a cloud infrastructure.
• A penchant for automating the boring stuff.
• Proficiency in Go.
• Ability to break down technical problems and solve them systematically.
  

• Apache Mesos, Google Kubernetes, Docker Swarm, Docker, Rocket.
• LXC. Linux, Ubuntu, CoreOS, Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services.
• Google Cloud Platform.
• Azure DevOps, Spinnaker, GitHub, GitLab.
• Infrastructure-as-code, Chef, Ansible, Puppet.
• Test-driven development, integration testing, continuous integration and continuous delivery, Jenkins, TeamCity, Travis CI, CircleCI.
  
  

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This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.