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 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.
Our culture
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. Meet our team in a short video talking about why we love working here.
Responsibilities
More about the Role
Running a global world class service that is tightly integrated with mission critical productivity apps (Microsoft Teams and Outlook) with millions of active users presents broad and evolving challenges. We’re constantly in need of improving our engineering systems and cloud services to meet the growing demands of a large user base (and a team of engineers) 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 backend engineer, you will be modernizing our systems to ensure that our developers can work with the newest and best technology. You will be refactoring and optimizing our computations and framework to improve our performance and scalability so that we can deliver cost-effective features. You will be developing tools to analyze, monitor and recover our services to increase the resiliency of our services. You will be improving our engineering systems to ensure that our growing and global development team can build, deploy and manage our service in a secured and compliant manner. You will build systems that enable big data analysis to measure user and organizational productivity and customer engagement.
Our customer needs evolve rapidly, our systems are diverse, and our backend challenges are broad. This allows our backend engineers to continuously find new areas of interest to go deep and develop new subject matter expertise, while helping us find better ways to innovate on agility, scale and security.
Key Responsibilities:
Deliver a high-quality, highly available service that meets customer SLAs across the globe
Drive long-term design thinking for systems and engineering processes with simplicity and maintainability as core tenets
Deliver value through a strong collaborative approach spanning many teams across geographies
Mentor and develop engineers across all levels through sharing and learning
Be a role model for an open, honest and inclusive approach to problem solving
Qualifications
Preferred Qualifications:
BS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field
7+ years of hands-on software design and coding experience
Passion for customer-focused innovation
Experience in design and implementation of large-scale cloud services
Strong technical, cross group collaboration and communication skills
Knowledge of modern engineering practices like automated deployments with integrated quality gates and experience working with modern version control systems like Git
Experience with data analysis and machine learning is a plus
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.
