Software Engineer 2

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. 

Required: 

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline AND 2+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C++, C#, Java, Node.js, or Python 

• OR equivalent experience. 

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

• Excellent skills in design, debugging, and problem solving 

• Passion for customers, product quality and engineering infrastructure 

• Motivated to learn and push the boundaries in challenging technical domains 

• Good communication skills and ability to collaborate across geographic and organizational boundaries 

• Self-motivated and organized to deliver results 

Preferred: 

• 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#, Java, JavaScript, or Python 

• OR equivalent experience. 

• Knowledge of service design principles    

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

• Familiarity with Azure or other cloud services and infrastructure   

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.

The Xbox Platform team has created a dedicated internal tools  team because we knew that to build a platform this vast, we needed to do things differently.  We created a team focused on deep partnerships with feature teams, not to test the product each day, but to build tools and invest in technologies which would allow us to build features faster, better and a higher quality.   If you have a passion for building tools and infrastructure enabling teams to build the experiences our customers deserve, please come talk to us.   We are building the future of gaming here, want to help? 

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 

• Working on services and tools leveraging the latest technologies. 

• Collaborate and contribute to efforts across multiple development teams and production tech stacks 

• Work across areas covering the entire stack top to bottom, Core Operating Systems, Services, Mobile and Desktop Clients, Data Analytics, and Tooling 

• Investigate, diagnose, and fix product issues in development & production 

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

• Share knowledge through mentorship and regular team interactions 

• Contribute to an inclusive and creative team culture and embody our culture and values