On Team Xbox, we aspire to empower the world’s 3 billion gamers to play the games they want, with the people they want, anywhere they want. Gaming, the largest and fastest growing category in media & entertainment, represents an important growth opportunity for Microsoft. We are leading with innovation, as highlighted by bringing Xbox to new devices with Cloud Gaming, bringing the Game Pass subscription to PC, and our recent acquisition of Activation Blizzard King creating exciting new possibilities for players.

The Xbox Experiences and Platforms team is home to the engineering work that makes this vision possible, building the developer tools and services that enable game creators to craft incredible experiences, the commerce systems that connect publishers with their audience and help gamers engage with their next favorite games, the platforms on which those games play at their best, and the experiences that turn every screen into an Xbox.

Responsibilities

Our Platform Services Engineering team is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to work on services and tools that help us build unforgettable experiences for Xbox gamers worldwide. As part of our team, you will build services that power the cloud and console gaming platform and tools that improve reliability and testability of those services. This is a dynamic role that involves both technical expertise, collaborative skills and experience to contribute to the modernization and enhancement of platform services

We welcome gamers and non-gamers alike, and actively seek out new perspectives to make our products better for everyone. Come join Experiences on Team Xbox and help define what’s next for Gaming!

Responsibilities

• You will collaborate with product managers, technical leads, and other team members to determine service requirements.  

• You will lead discussions about the architecture of service solutions and create proposals. You will develop design documents for services, determine the technologies that will be leveraged and how they will interact, and ensure that the system architecture meets privacy, security, and compliance requirements and expectations.  

• You will lead by example, implementing quality code, that is extensible and maintainable. You will ensure coding standards considering diagnosability, reliability, and maintainability when writing and reviewing code.  

• You will incorporate appropriate continuous feedback loops measuring usage patterns, performance, and other actionable metrics which will ensure the health of APIs, features, and services.  

• You will act as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) for our services on rotation. While working on-call you will monitor our services for degradation, downtime, or interruptions to ensure that we maintain our Service Level Agreements (SLAs) and to identify areas to improve across instrumentation, metrics, alerting, and live-site processes. You will guide other engineers by developing and following a playbook.

• Embody our  culture  and  values

Qualifications

Required:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline 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 in design, coding, debugging, and problem-solving.

• 4+ years of experience designing and developing online services.  

• Experience organizing, executing and delivering work as committed, on time and with high quality.  

   

Preferred:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python

• OR Master'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.

• Knowledge of service design principles  

• Experience with collaboration, and driving respectful and efficient design discussions. 

• Knowledge of Azure Kubernetes Services and NoSQL DB. 

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) .