Senior Software Engineer

Microsoft

5 - 10 years

Hyderabad

Posted: 26/10/2025

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Job Description

Overview

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

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.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 8+ 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 containers and container orchestration systems.
Experience operating and evolving large-scale distributed systems in a cloud infrastructure.
A penchant for automating the boring stuff.
Proficiency in Go.
Ability to break down technical problems and solve them systematically.

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:

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 7+ years technical engineering experience with application deployment using CI/CD.
Apache Mesos, Google Kubernetes, Docker Swarm, Docker, Rocket, LXC.
Linux, Ubuntu, CoreOS, Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform.
Azure DevOps, Spinnaker, GitHub, GitLab.
Infrastructure-as-code, Chef, Ansible, Puppet.
Test-driven development, integration testing, continuous integration and continuous delivery, Jenkins, TeamCity, Travis CI, CircleCI.

#CAPIDC #ENGAGE

Responsibilities

You will help us build the tools necessary to accelerate our engineering teams and orchestrate the cloud-based systems that power Engage.
Deploy new code every day to our tens of millions of users and are constantly innovating to improve our systems and deliver a delightful experience to Engage's developers.
Our stack:
- Linux on Azure
- Java and Ruby micro services, deployed as docker containers
- Graph QL, Dropwizard, Rails REST APIs
- Postgres/CosmosDB/Kafka/RabbitMQ/Redis storage and queuing
- Mesos container orchestration, HAProxy-based service mesh

About Company

Microsoft Corporation is a leading American multinational technology company founded in 1975 by Bill Gates and Paul Allen. Headquartered in Redmond, Washington, Microsoft is best known for its software products, including the Windows operating system, Microsoft Office Suite, and Azure cloud services. The company also produces hardware like the Surface devices and owns LinkedIn, GitHub, and the Xbox gaming brand. Microsoft is one of the world's most valuable companies, playing a key role in personal computing, enterprise software, AI, and cloud computing.