Viva Glint Senior Software Engineer - Performance Testing - Microsoft

What is Viva?

Microsoft is embarking on a new effort to address the growing needs of employees around the world. We are building a product suite designed to address the fundamental shift in how people work, build their career, and find meaning in their workplace.

Employee engagement is undergoing a fundamental shift in response to economic, demographic, and societal changes. People want to be excited about their work, be connected to their company culture, understand how to succeed, and feel supported across a spectrum of onboarding, skilling, coaching and mentoring. Our team is dedicated to examining the employee journey and delivering software and services to make it better.

What is Viva Glint?

Viva Glint is a premier employee engagement platform, working with over 1,000 leading companies in more than 150 countries to improve the health of organizations through real-time employee feedback. Glint blends AI technology and people science to power predictive insights that help human resources, leaders, and managers quickly make sense of engagement data, connect insight with outcomes, and take meaningful action.

Today’s employees are looking to be part of an inclusive and supportive culture, inspired by their leaders, and connected to their work and each other. Companies that excel at understanding the needs of their people, and enable their managers to respond in meaningful ways, see 2.5 times higher profit, 3 times lower attrition, and 3 times lower burnout.

The Glint product recently joined Microsoft as part of the Employee Experience (EXP) organization, which includes Viva Glint, Viva Learning, Viva Pulse and the Viva Horizontals teams. We run as a start-up, encouraging team members to share a sense of “founderism.” Team members engage directly with customers, iterate rapidly, and focus on solving the needs of employees around the world. Our culture is inclusive, casual, and high energy. Our team celebrates diverse backgrounds, and values passion for serving our customers. Our team has a strong sense of accountability and provides its members with opportunities for learning and career growth.

We are seeking an experienced Senior Software Engineer to collaborate with Application Architects and Product Owners to define and design specific performance test scenarios and key outcomes. The ideal candidate has a broad knowledge of performance testing methodology, tools and distributed systems architectures. You will drive engineering and operational excellence in Viva Glint and collaborate with other engineers to surface common pain points, develop solutions and evangelize best practices. You will also support, mentor and help other engineers in the team.

Responsibilities

• Architect and drive complex performance testing / engineering projects that measure the characteristics of systems running under dynamic, real-world workloads for enterprise software and services 
• Collaborate with PMs and developers to better understand how customers interface and use our product to design specific testing strategies for features being developed
• Create infrastructure, automation, and tools that drive realistic loads against the core services of our platform. 
• Collect and report performance metrics from test executions 

• Deep dives with engineers to identify root causes for performance bottlenecks and propose solutions
• Constantly learn and grow as an engineer

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline 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.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 8+ years of performance testing experience with large-scale distributed systems  
• Strong skills in JMeter, load testing frameworks (i.e., Azure Load Test, Blazemeter)   
• Highly skillful in scripting and programming with Java/Python, and testing frameworks (e.g., Selenium)  
• Experience with SQL   
• Understand system architecture, carry out root cause analysis of complex performance issues, analyze results and recommend solutions   
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a drive for learning new technologies   
• Proven ability to drive cross-team technical discussions and decision making with a proven understanding of SDLC concepts

Software Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $112,000 - $218,400 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $145,800 - $238,600 per year.

Learn more about base pay ranges and pay equity: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances.  We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.

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