Software Engineering - Team Xbox

Studio Intro

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 the Game Pass subscription to PC, bringing Xbox to new devices with Cloud Gaming, 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 Developer Engineering team is looking for a passionate software engineer who is interested in being part of a diverse, inclusive, and collaborative team, developing and supporting high quality services for game developers and partners, and solving complex problems and engineering challenges in large-scale systems. 

Required 

• 4+ years experience delivering quality software within a professional organization.  
• 3 years programming in one or more of C#, C, C++, Java 
• Experience with RESTful APIs, services and cloud storage technologies 
• Understanding of data structures, algorithms, threading, synchronization. 
• You are an ambitious teammate who is passionate about learning, sharing knowledge, and making your teammates successful. 
• You are creative and have strong design, development and collaboration skills. 
  
• Be available for on-call. 4 weeks per year

Preferred  

• 2 years programming with .NET Framework or .NET CORE 
• Experience with one or more of Kubernetes, Linux, Azure or AWS 
• BS/MS degree in Computer Science (or equivalent) 
• And we would love to hear about your consistently positive performance history. 
  
  

Cultural Attributes 

• Ability to bring a diverse perspective which drives business success. 
• Growth mindset with a desire to learn, an interest in embracing challenges, persistence in the face of setbacks, sees failure as essential to mastery, learns from criticism and finds lessons and inspiration in the success of others. 
• Active participation in creating a diverse and inclusive culture where everyone can bring their full and authentic self, where all voices are heard. 
• Ability to articulate ideas to diverse audiences with varying responsibilities and concerns. 
• Ability to synthesize information from various sources and summarize it for others.