Senior Software Engineer

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.  

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer that will help us achieve our mission of transforming how others work.

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.

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

• 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.
• Build and improve systems that enable big data analysis to measure user and organizational productivity and customer engagement.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
• OR equivalent experience.
• 4+ years of computer science fundamentals and proven algorithm design capability
• OR equivalent experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Proficiency in object-oriented development, with C# and .Net Framework (preferred) or any other object-oriented programming languages such as Java, C++ or related.
• Experience in architectural design and large-scale systems

Software Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $119,800 - $234,700 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 $158,400 - $258,000 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 will accept applications for the role until Octover 17, 2025. 

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.

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