Principal Engineering Manager

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.

As a Principal Engineering Manager, you must have a proven track record leading and managing a team of engineers spanning all aspects of software engineering life cycle and a history of delivering highly available products and services with quality and on schedule. We need someone who is hands-on, detail-oriented, and obsessed with delivering world-class experiences that are performant and built for massive scale in a 24 / 7 world. The day-to-day responsibilities include a blend of technical, hands-on leadership with strong people management and partnership skills.

As a backend platform team, our engineers develop the core services that power all Viva Engage experiences. You will collaborate with feature teams to evolve platform capabilities to meet user needs reliably, securely, and ready to scale with our growth. 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.

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

• Build, develop, grow and lead a team of high-performing engineers.
• Scale the Engage platform to achieve projected growth and innovate on features to grow usage and meet user needs.
• Partner with other Engineering teams, Product, Data Science stakeholders within and beyond our organization to drive strategic decisions and execution excellence, leading to great business impact.
• Provide oversight, accountability, and leadership for technical architecture and decisions
• Oversee timely delivery of high quality solutions to meeting customer needs and product strategy
• Foster a culture that drives engineering excellence, guiding and motivating the team to constantly improve reliability, performance, security, stability, component reuse, and overall architecture of our web-based surfaces and the underlying tech-stack.
• Embody our culture and values.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications :

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 :

Preferred Qualifications

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Skills Required

Java, Azure Cosmos DB, C, Javascript, Python