Principal Software Engineer - Viva

The Microsoft Viva Suite was launched two years ago to address the fundamental shift in how people work, build their career, and find meaning in their workplace. Employee engagement is in flux during times of 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 in their careers. The broader Viva product family is dedicated to examining the employee journey and delivering software and services to make it better.  

Viva Horizontals is a shared platform and core services team under Viva Employee Experience Organization (EXP) and are a catalyst for suite growth. The team creates foundational services in core suite-wide areas like access management, innovates on suite-level platforms like Viva Skills and are responsible for pioneering Viva’s presence on M365 Copilot. Viva Horizontals work on pivotal infrastructure and platform services that have a Viva-wide influence and value. 

Principal Software Engineer - (Viva) 

The Viva Horizontals team is looking to hire a Principal Software Engineer - (Viva) to lead us through the exciting journey of skill inferencing and skills based experiences across Viva. In this role you will be responsible for architecture, systems design and operations at scale for Viva Skills platform and will work alongside rest of the partner teams in Viva. We are a truly distributed team and have mechanisms in place to make individuals successful irrespective of their location and time zone differences. We run as a start-up, encouraging team members to share a sense of “founder-ism.” Team members engage directly with customers, iterate rapidly, and focus on solving the needs of employees around the world. Our culture is inclusive, casual, and motivated. Our team celebrates diverse backgrounds, and values passion for serving our customers. Our team has a keen sense of accountability and provides its members with opportunities for learning and career growth.  

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. 

In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day. 

Required/Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline AND 6+ years software development experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python

               o OR equivalent experience.

• 5+ years’ experience architecting and developing robust and extensible solutions at enterprise scale
• 5+ years’ experience working with distributed systems/Microservices architectures

Preferred Qualifications:

• Demonstrated experience in design, coding, rapid prototyping, debugging, and problem-solving
• Demonstrated ability to work on cross-platform code
• Demonstrated experience communicating, collaborating and navigating ambiguity in a cross-group environment
• Demonstrated experience driving quality experience for customers

Software Engineering IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $133,600 - $256,800 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 $173,200 - $282,200 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 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.

• Define, design, and deliver experiences from incubations stage to maturity with customer trust and user delight
• Be a role model for engineers in your team
• Create clarity and take ownership of architecture decisions working with partners and customers
• Develop and release new modules and horizontal features for the Viva Product Suite
• Work with our product and design team to implement intuitive and engaging user experiences.
• Define and build systems and strategies to ensure quality, performance, simplicity, durability, scalability, and maintainability  
• Embody our culture and values