Senior Software Engineer

At Team Xbox, we are on a mission to bring the joy and community of gaming to everyone on the planet. We deliver on that vision by putting players at the center, enabling you to play the games you want, with the people you want, anywhere you want.

Gaming Player Services and Operations is at the heart of our ambition to reach billions of players across the globe, ensuring that every player feels included and engaged across Xbox. We do this through our commitment to driving operational excellence through innovation and ensuring player and partner delight across Microsoft Gaming.

As part of GPSO, the Xbox Services & Operations (XSO) team mission is to build and maintain services enabling increased customer engagement plus player growth across the Microsoft Gaming eco-system. A significant part of this responsibility involves adopting and/or creating Cloud Solutions. We leverage Azure Cloud platform capabilities; along with investing in the engineering of complementary Observability and Manageability solutions to run our Gaming business. We use this approach to apply consistent and scalable solutions across existing Xbox services, aiding in broad adoption across our Gaming business partners and consulting with acquisitions to assure their migrations to Azure Cloud are executed successfully with high degrees of Operational Excellence. The end objective being assurance that all systems within our Microsoft Gaming portfolio are operating on modern cloud capabilities thus eliminating the burdens and risks associated with dedicated infrastructure and/or legacy solutions. This role requires developing strong working relationships across business partners in Gaming, aiding in creating unified cloud adoption plans and ultimately assisting with consultation or engineering execution of the migrations.

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to help us build experiences surrounding parent and child account signups and parental management of safety controls across all Xbox clients on mobile devices, web browsers, consoles, PCs, and handhelds. In this role you will work with a diverse team of engineers to develop new platform features and deliver innovative gaming experiences in both web and native codebases. Your contributions will help establish new requirements and best practices for the platform. You will collaborate with geographically distributed product management, program management, UX design, and engineering teams to design, implement, and roll out features and solutions that delight our customers. Additionally, you will identify and address challenges in building high quality solutions, continuously improving the capabilities of the Xbox ecosystem.  

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. 

Required:   

• BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent   

• 6+ years of professional software development experience building end-user applications  

• Experience building React or React Native applications   

• Excellent design and coding skills in JavaScript or C/C++/C# 

• A strong interest in bringing end user experiences to a gaming audience and an understanding of their needs 

• Experience as a technical leader, driving design and architecture across the product codebase   

• Experience using real time data signals to monitor and alert on product health   

Preferred:   

• Experience shipping web applications using React JS and Typescript   

• Experience shipping cross-platform applications using React JS and Typescript   

• Understanding of modern web app development against cloud service dependencies   

• Technical knowledge and understanding of challenges related to the gaming space, including but not limited to responsive UX design across device form factors, navigational input including gamepad, touch, and mouse/keyboard.   

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.

Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.

• Learn various tools and technologies and effectively use them to deliver our wide variety of customer scenarios. 

• Translate requirements into high quality software design and implementation. 

• Create, scope, design, implement, validate, and release new product features. 

• Provide technical vision for your areas to the broader team. 

• Foster a culture of excellence in execution by adhering to modern engineering principles and practices.  

• Collaborate with others across geographic and organizational boundaries to make impactful changes.  

• Coach and mentor team members. 

• Actively contribute to a flexible, diverse, and inclusive culture that brings out the best in the team.