Microsoft Senior Software Engineer Backend 

Canada, British Columbia, Vancouver 

994626588

Viva Engage is the industry-defining social network for the enterprise.

iva Engage blends startup agility with the resources of a tech giant.We believe in mission-driven work and in this post-Covid world,our platform is indispensable for remoteand hybrid

Viva Engage to the next level:

• Autonomy to innovate
• Access tocutting-edgetech, both open source and Microsoft's finest
• Data-driven decision-making through experimentation and A/B testing
• The chance to be a key player in a growing product with global significance
• Opportunities to shapelarge-scale distributed services within a suitecatering to

Our backend stack is composed of:

• Linux on Azure infrastructure
• Java and Ruby microservices, packaged as docker containers
• GraphQL,Dropwizard, and Rails for REST APIs
• Storage and queuing with Postgres, Cosmos DB, Azure Queue, Kafka, and Redis
• Kubernetes and Mesos container orchestration
• Grafana metrics, Azure Data Explorer log aggregation, Microsoft-standard monitoring

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, REST, or Python
  • OR equivalent experience.
• 2+ years of experience with multiple datastores (SQL and NoSQL) and data access patterns.
• Experience programming maintainable code and writing tests.

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 owning your code through production.
• Curious about reliability and performance, up and down the stack.
• Microservices development, deployment, and monitoring.
• Experience building large scale, resilient distributed systems.
• Working familiarity with networking protocols (TCP/IP, HTTP) and network architectures.
• Efficient, tenacious debugging skills using logs and metrics.
• Demonstrated ability with Ruby on Rails is a plus but not necessary.

Software Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across Canada is CAD $104,000 - CAD $193,200 per year.

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• Architect, develop, and sustain services with tens of millions of users across various global regions.
• Work closely with product, design, and engineering teams to ensure an exceptional user experience.
• Constantly explore ways to enhance the performance and scalability of our systems.
• Conduct experiments and A/B tests tovalidatehypotheses and drive data-driven decisions.
• Enhance service reliability, performance, and latency to meet evolving demands.
• Help build andmaintain