Senior Software Engineer-Backend

1 Month ago • 6 Years + • Backend Development

Job Summary

Job Description

As a Senior Software Engineer - Backend at Xbox, you'll design and develop highly scalable, low-latency cloud services for Xbox Family and Child experiences. This involves creating services related to gaming accounts, GamerTags, family features, parental controls, and child safety. You'll work with a microservices architecture, handling billions of requests across various platforms (mobile, web, consoles, PCs). Collaboration with various teams (Game Pass, Xbox Console, xCloud) is crucial. Responsibilities include the entire service lifecycle (design, development, deployment, monitoring), innovating new features, and ensuring compliance with regulations. You'll need strong problem-solving skills, experience with large-scale service development, and proficiency in languages like C#, C, C++, or Java.
Must have:
  • 6+ years software development experience
  • Large-scale service design & development
  • Proficiency in C#, C, C++, Java
  • Cloud service development experience
  • Problem-solving & debugging skills
Good to have:
  • Gaming industry experience
  • Identity & Access Management
  • Kubernetes experience
Perks:
  • Industry leading healthcare
  • Educational resources
  • Discounts on products and services
  • Savings and investments
  • Maternity and paternity leave
  • Generous time away
  • Giving programs
  • Networking opportunities

Job Details

Overview

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.

 

The Xbox Accounts and Family Team owns and builds experiences involving: Gaming Accounts, GamerTags, Gamer’s Family, Parental Controls and Safety controls for Children, Account Sign up experiences for all users among many other things. 

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to help us build highly scalable, available and resilient Cloud Services that power the future Xbox Family and Child experiences across many platforms and device types such as: Mobile devices, Web browsers, Consoles, PCs, Handhelds. 

These experiences range from: Sign up of Children, Parental Controls, Child Safety controls, Activity reporting etc. for both Parents/Guardians and Children, Compliance and regulatory requirements in this space. 

As a member of our team you will have opportunity to design and develop low-latency (single digit milliseconds) massively-scaled (billions of requests) geo-distributed cloud services using a microservices architecture. You will have opportunities to collaborate with a wide variety of partners including Game Pass, Xbox Console, xCloud, Store, Microsoft Accounts, etc. to shape future investments in Family and Child experiences space and build services to support new scenarios that will accelerate growth of gaming business. You can build your career, have fun doing it, and provide delightful and safe end-to-end experiences for our customers. 

Qualifications

Qualifications 

  • A Bachelor’s degree in computer science or engineering. 
  • 6+ years of commercial software development experience 
  • 6+ years with large scale service design and development 
  • Proficiency in programming in one or more of C#, C, C++, Java. 
  • Passion for building, developing world class high scale distributed Cloud Services. 
  • Strong problem solving and debugging skills associated with production services 
  • Good interpersonal skills such as: building relationships, receive and provide honest feedback from peers and partners, supporting your team. 


Preferred Qualifications
 

  • Relevant experience and passion in the gaming and services space. 
  • Experience in Identity and Access management. 
  • Experience creating and managing Cloud services using Kubernetes. 
  • And we would love to hear about your consistently positive performance history. 


Responsibilities

  • Willingness to learn various tools and technologies so you can effectively use them to deliver our wide variety of customer scenarios. 
  • Translate requirement into scalable software architecture and implementation. 
  • You get to own End to End life cycle (design, develop, deploy and monitor) of multiple low latency, high scale globally deployable Cloud Services. 
  • As a product innovator, you will create, scope, design, implement, validate, and release of new product features. 
  • A love for working together across disciplines, partners and being an active participant in a community of inclusion and respect. 
  • Provide technical vision for your areas to the broader team.
Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.
Industry leading healthcare
Educational resources
Discounts on products and services
Savings and investments
Maternity and paternity leave
Generous time away
Giving programs
Opportunities to network and connect

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