Software Engineering II [Backend]

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 favourite games, the platforms on which those games play at their best, and the experiences that turn every screen into an Xbox. 

The Xbox Experiences and Platform Commerce (XPC) team is responsible for ensuring publishers have low friction access to our ecosystem, rich insights into the publishing experience, and a world class platform to provide their content to Gamers around the world.  We work closely with partner teams across Xbox, as well as both internal and external game studios to further these goals.  We’re always striving to find new and innovative ways of incorporating the latest in design patterns, cloud tech, and machine learning to create better experiences – all while maintaining very high availability services and ensuring the safety and security of our customers data.

Responsibilities

Our team works primarily on high scale, high availability back-end services that power publisher facing experiences.  The team also works closely with various partner teams inside Xbox to deliver comprehensive solutions.  This position will be responsible for designing and driving implementation of service-based solutions across these areas and partner teams.  An ideal candidate for this position will have extensive web services experience.    

Responsibilities include:  

• Working on products and services leveraging the latest technologies from Microsoft. 

• Partner with experts across geographic and organizational boundaries to make impactful changes.  

• Adhere to modern engineering principles and practices, code reviews, and project management. 

• Take on the challenges of working with well-established, large-scale systems.  

• Participate in governance activities, manage technical tasks, and ensure quality assurance through automated testing and integration validation. 

• Build functional and technical documentation, write unit and integration tests, and update Continuous Integration and Continuous Deliver (CI/CD) pipelines. 

Qualifications

Required Qualifications: 

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or related technical field AND 3+ 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: 

• Excellent skills in design, debugging, and problem solving.  

• Passion for customers, product quality and test engineering.  

• Demonstrated experience in shipping high-quality products and services. 

• Familiarity with Azure, web services, multi-tiered client/server distributed applications and cross device testing. 

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. 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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