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The Xbox Video team is looking for a Senior Software Engineer who is passionate about building high-quality video experiences on cutting-edge hardware and software platforms. Our team is responsible for delivering the video technologies that power Xbox experiences used by missions around the world. In this role, you'll work across the Windows platform and Xbox video stack, helping build and optimize the APIs and system-level components that interact directly with advanced graphics and video hardware. You'll contribute to technologies such as video encoding and decoding, color processing, motion estimation, and rate control to ensure smooth, high-performance playback across devices. You'll be part of a collaborative and experienced engineering team that works closely with internal and external partners to solve complex technical challenges across the Xbox ecosystem. While prior experience with media or video technologies is a plus, you'll be successful in this role if you enjoy working close to the system - across operating systems, APIs, and platform-level code - to deliver impactful user experiences. 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.
Job Responsibility:
Collaborates with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a scenario
Drives identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for a product, application, service, or platform
Creates, implements, optimizes, debugs, refactors, and reuses code to establish and improve performance and maintainability, effectiveness, and return on investment (ROI)
Leverages subject-matter expertise of product features and partners with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project managers) to drive a workgroup's project plans, release plans, and work items
Acts as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) and guides other engineers by developing and following the playbook, working on call to monitor system/product/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions, alerting stakeholders about status and initiates actions to restore system/product/service for simple and complex problems when appropriate
Proactively seeks new knowledge and adapts to new trends, technical solutions, and patterns that will improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while also driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale
Embody our culture and values
Requirements:
Bachelor'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 or C++
OR equivalent experience
Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements
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Nice to have:
3+ years of experience contributing to operating systems, application programming interface (API), or device drivers for consumer PCs or electronics
2+ years of experience developing software for the Windows platform, including work at the platform, API, or media systems level
Interest and experience in all things video and video hardware
Proficiency in design, coding, debugging, and problem solving skills