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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 Activision 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. 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!
Job Responsibility:
Collaborate with product managers, technical leads, and other team members to determine service requirements
Lead discussions about the architecture of service solutions and create proposals
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
Lead by example, implementing quality code, that is extensible and maintainable
Ensure coding standards considering diagnosability, reliability, and maintainability when writing and reviewing code
Incorporate appropriate continuous feedback loops measuring usage patterns, performance, and other actionable metrics which will ensure the health of APIs, features, and services
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 livesite processes
Guide other engineers by developing and following a playbook
Embody our culture and values
Requirements:
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline AND 6+ 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
Nice to have:
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