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. We are looking for people who are excited to join our team and make a difference with Microsoft Viva. 

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. We are responsible for building and driving adoption of the platform and technologies that reaches across major products like Teams, SharePoint, OneDrive, and Microsoft Search to deliver employee engagement experiences.    

Responsibilities

We are looking for an experienced Engineer for a team that will be working on Microsoft Viva. This will be a backend team that works on services and big data. As an engineer on the team you will design and implement hyper-scale distributed services and big data analytics systems. You will work in an agile environment that emphasizes the use of data, metrics and experimentation as means to optimize the user experience. You will also engage with customers to understand need and drive key partner relationships across Microsoft as Viva, which is a One Microsoft effort.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional software design and development experience with at least one of C/C++/C#/Java or Big Data frameworks (Hadoop map-reduce, data modeling) 
• Prior experience with developing large high-scale micro services, with service-oriented development and cloud-based systems 
• Strong technical abilities, problem solving, design, rapid prototyping, coding and debugging skills
• Excellent verbal, written, and cross group collaboration and communication skills 
• BS/MS or higher degree in Computer Science or related technical field

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.