Job Description

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. We are seeking a

Senior Software Engineer

to join our team. 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 dedicated to 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

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Experience in building the backend systems to power both batch/realtime analytics and the scalable data platform that ingests billions of events daily and stores exabytes of data. Ability to deploy new code every day to our tens of millions of users and are constantly innovating to improve our systems. Our stack: + Linux on Azure
+ Java and Python services, deployed as docker containers
+ GraphQL, Dropwizard, Apache Airflow, Snowflake, Microsoft Fabric and lots of Azure PaaS
+ Postgres/CosmosDB/EventHubs/Redis storage and queuing

Qualifications

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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.
2+ years experience operating and evolving large-scale distributed systems in a cloud infrastructure.

Other Requirements:

Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings:

Microsoft Cloud Background Check:

This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Preferred Qualifications:

Experience with large scale datawarehouse and datalake (Snowflake, Microsoft Fabric, AWS Redshift or Google BigQuery). Experience with Apache Airflow or similar orchestration system. Ability to break down technical problems and solve them systematically. Test-driven development, integration testing, continuous integration and continuous delivery.

Software Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across Canada is CAD $114,400 - CAD $203,900 per year.

Find additional pay information here:


https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/canada-pay-information.html



Microsoft will accept applications for the role until November 17th, 2025.



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