Viva Goals is a category leading Goals SaaS solution that helps drive accountability, transparency, and alignment on goals across organizations. As part of Viva, Goals has an awesome opportunity to build a massive business from the ground up and bring purpose, happiness, and productivity to millions.

Viva Goals is seeking a Software Engineer with the right mix of systems engineering, software development, on-line services experience, and passion for quality to envision, design, and deliver our highly scalable services that aim to serve enterprise users and managers across the globe. 

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

• Make software services reliable, secure, monitor and auto-manage infrastructure for specialized workloads on Azure.

• You will be involved in improving the reliability of infrastructure & platform services used by mission critical workloads.

• Achieving Operational Excellence via Metric-Driven Strategies: Establish and execute metric-focused strategies for operational excellence, utilizing key performance indicators (KPIs) and error budgets to enhance reliability.

• You will write software to automate and build reliable systems to enable our platform to scale effortlessly. It is a fast-paced environment. Our emphasis is on value to customers and live site excellence.

• Create automations to better handle incidents, documenting troubleshooting guides and to minimize the MTTA and MTTM.

• Participate in Oncall rotations

• Implementing and optimizing development workflows and processes to enhance developer productivity, including identifying bottlenecks, streamlining code review procedures, and introducing automation solutions to accelerate software delivery timelines

Qualifications

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.

• Experience with full stack troubleshooting across networks, applications, hardware, management fabric or distributed services layers.

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 the below technologies: 

• Azure VMs, KeyVault, Service Fabric, ARM templates, Traffic Manager, Storage Accounts,  DevOps release and build pipelines 

• Docker containers, Kubernetes, Windows, and Linux OS fundamentals 

• Grafana, Service mesh, Redis and Cosmos/PostgreSQL Db

• Certificate lifecycle management including creation, administration, domain registration and revocation etc. 

• Source code management using Git, querying data in Azure Data Explorer, authoring and building PowerBI dashboards , authoring workflows using Power Automate 

• Awareness of, and ability to reason about, modern software & systems architectures, including load-balancing, queueing, caching, distributed systems failure modes, microservices, and so on.  

• Associated troubleshooting skills, including the ability to follow remote call chains across multiple service layers. Consequent understanding of monitoring in distributed systems. 

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations (https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/accessibility.html) .