Principal Software Engineer

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. 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 driving innovation, connection, and community for our valued global customers. #VivaEngage   

Our engineers develop the services that power all our experiences. Viva Engage has a plethora of interesting engineering challenges - like supporting large-scale conversations and communities with hundreds of thousands of participants. We deploy new code every day to our tens of millions of users and are constantly innovating to improve the system and deliver a delightful experience.   

Our stack:   

• Linux on Azure   
• GraphQL API gateway  
• Postgres, CosmosDB, Redis, RabbitMQ   
• Java and Ruby on Rails services, deployed as docker containers   
• Mesos and Kubernetes container orchestration 
• Observability: Grafana metrics, Azure Data Explorer log aggregation 
• React.js. Redux, Relay     

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.