Software Engineer II

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Here in Microsoft Gaming, 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.

What We are Looking For

We are seeking a Software Engineer to help us build highly scalable, highly available, and resilient cloud services that enable the future of:

• Xbox Family and Child experiences
• User Age Assurance
• Identity and account systems across mobile, web, console, PC, and handheld devices

You will help deliver world-class, compliant experiences for parents, guardians, and children across the Xbox ecosystem.

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  Design and build low-latency, massively scaled, geo-distributed cloud services using modern microservices architecture.
• Own the end-to-end lifecycle for globally deployed services (design, development, deployment, monitoring).
• Translate requirements into scalable, reliable, and compliant service architecture.
• Develop new capabilities for gaming, identity, family, safety, and compliance scenarios across platforms.
• Collaborate with partners across Game Pass, Xbox Console, xCloud, Store, MSA, and others to drive long-term investments.
• Innovate and deliver new product features through design, implementation, validation, and release.
• Continuously learn new tools and technologies to meet diverse customer and regulatory needs.
• Contribute technical vision and work in a culture of inclusion, partnership, and respect.
• Deliver safe, delightful experiences that impact millions of players worldwide.

Qualifications

• A Bachelor’s degree in computer science or engineering.
• 4+ years of commercial software development experience
• 4+ 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 Cloud 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.

This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process.