Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational technology company with headquarters in Redmond, WA. It develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells computer software, consumer electronics, personal computers, and related services. Its best known software products are the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems, the Microsoft Office suite, and the Internet Explorer and Edge web browsers. Its flagship hardware products are the Xbox video game consoles and the Microsoft Surface lineup of touchscreen personal computers. Microsoft offers career choices across a wealth of disciplines, with a presence in over 100 countries. The company has a growth mindset culture, believing in the importance of teamwork and diversity. Giving and philanthropy are also part of the company's identity. As an employee, Microsoft will reward you with world-class benefits designed to empower you and your family to live life well.
Job Description
What is Yammer?
Microsoft Yammer is the industry-defining social network for the enterprise. Millions of employees, including 85% of Fortune 500 companies use Yammer every day, to build community and culture, share knowledge, and connect with their leaders and each other.
Why Yammer?
Yammer was one of the first startup unicorns this past decade and was acquired by Microsoft in 2012. Today, this means we get the benefits of a startup - rapid innovation, cutting-edge technology, outsized individual impact - with the advantages of working for one of the most successful software companies in the world. We work together in small, cross-functional teams - engineers, product managers, designers, data scientists - to design, deliver and operate delightful end user experiences to our tens of millions of users spread across the world.
We’ve always been mission-driven; In this post-Covid world, Yammer has become even more indispensable than ever as employees have a deep need for connection and a sense of belonging. We’ve been growing rapidly and need your help to take Yammer to the next level.
You will have:
Autonomy and freedom to innovate
Choice of the best of open source and Microsoft-internal technology
The ability to experiment, A/B test, and make data-driven decisions
Tons of opportunity for outsized impact as part of a small but mighty team on a rapidly-growing product needed now more than ever
At the same time, you also have the benefits of working at a top-tier tech company like Microsoft:
Compensation, benefits, and perks
Internal resources, technology, and opportunities for learning and growth
Brand and networking
Opportunity for massive scale as part of a suite with hundreds of millions of users
About this job
Our backend engineers develop the core Yammer services that power all our experiences. As a social networking product, Yammer has tons of interesting engineering challenges - like supporting large-scale conversations 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.
Our BE 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
Wavefront metrics, Azure Data Explorer log aggregation, PagerDuty alerting
Should the 'our stack' be apart of separate be\fe desc? I propose moving it to JD specific sections [BD1]
#Yammer
This position is open.
This job was posted on Fri Apr 08 2022 and expires on Sun May 08 2022.
Minimum$76,884
$107,143average
Maximum$132,753
Microsoft Corporation
Description
Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational technology company with headquarters in Redmond, WA. It develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells computer software, consumer electronics, personal computers, and related services. Its best known software products are the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems, the Microsoft Office suite, and the Internet Explorer and Edge web browsers. Its flagship hardware products are the Xbox video game consoles and the Microsoft Surface lineup of touchscreen personal computers. Microsoft offers career choices across a wealth of disciplines, with a presence in over 100 countries. The company has a growth mindset culture, believing in the importance of teamwork and diversity. Giving and philanthropy are also part of the company's identity. As an employee, Microsoft will reward you with world-class benefits designed to empower you and your family to live life well.