<b>Overview</b><br><div><p><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span xml:lang="EN-IN" data-contrast="none"><span data-ccp-parastyle-defn="{"ObjectId":"aaed607e-c2a3-5841-9fb4-41037bfa0faf|1","ClassId":1073872969,"Properties":[201342446,"1",201342447,"5",201342448,"1",201342449,"1",469777841,"Times New Roman",469777842,"Times New Roman",469777843,"Times New Roman",469777844,"Times New Roman",201341986,"1",469769226,"Times New Roman",268442635,"24",469775450,"paragraph",201340122,"2",134233614,"true",469778129,"paragraph",335572020,"1",335559740,"240",201341983,"0",134233118,"true",134233117,"true",469778324,"Normal"]}" data-ccp-parastyle="paragraph">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, </span><span data-ccp-parastyle="paragraph">represents</span><span data-ccp-parastyle="paragraph"> 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.</span></span><span data-ccp-props="{"134233117":true,"134233118":true,"201341983":0,"335551550":6,"335551620":6,"335559739":0,"335559740":240}"> </span></span></p></div><div><p><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span xml:lang="EN-IN" data-contrast="none"><span data-ccp-parastyle="paragraph">The Xbox </span><span data-ccp-parastyle="paragraph">Experiences and Platforms</span><span data-ccp-parastyle="paragraph"> team is home to the engineering work that makes this vision possible, building the </span><span data-ccp-parastyle="paragraph">developer tools</span><span data-ccp-parastyle="paragraph"> and services </span><span data-ccp-parastyle="paragraph">that enable</span><span data-ccp-parastyle="paragraph"> </span><span data-ccp-parastyle="paragraph">game creators to craft incredible </span><span data-ccp-parastyle="paragraph">experiences, </span><span data-ccp-parastyle="paragraph">the commerce systems that connect publishers with their audience and help gamers engage with their next </span><span data-ccp-parastyle="paragraph">favorite</span><span data-ccp-parastyle="paragraph"> games, the platforms on which those games play at their best, and the experiences that </span><span data-ccp-parastyle="paragraph">turn every screen into an Xbox.</span></span><span data-ccp-props="{"134233117":true,"134233118":true,"201341983":0,"335551550":6,"335551620":6,"335559739":0,"335559740":240}"> </span></span></p></div><br><br><b>Responsibilities</b><br><div><p><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto">Our Platform Services Engineering team is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to work on services and tools that help us build unforgettable experiences for Xbox gamers worldwide. As part of our team, you will build services that power the cloud and console gaming platform and tools that improve reliability and testability of those services.</span><span xml:lang="EN-IN" data-contrast="auto"> This is a dynamic role that involves both technical expertise, collaborative skills and experience to contribute to the modernization and enhancement of platform services</span><span data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559740":278}"> </span></span></p></div><div><p><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto">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!</span><span xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto"> </span><span xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto"> </span><span data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559740":278}"> </span></span></p></div><div><p><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559740":278}"> </span><strong><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto">Responsibilities:</span><span data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559740":278}"> </span></span></strong></p></div><div><ul style="list-style-type: disc;" role="list"><li style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;" role="listitem" data-aria-level="1" data-aria-posinset="1" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"multilevel"}" data-listid="18" data-font="Symbol" data-leveltext="" aria-setsize="-1"><p><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto">You will collaborate with product managers, technical leads, and other team members to determine service requirements.</span><span xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto"> </span><span xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto"> </span><span data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559740":278}"> </span></span></p></li></ul></div><div><ul style="list-style-type: disc;" role="list"><li style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;" role="listitem" data-aria-level="1" data-aria-posinset="1" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"multilevel"}" data-listid="19" data-font="Symbol" data-leveltext="" aria-setsize="-1"><p><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto">You will lead discussions about the architecture of service solutions and create proposals. You will develop design documents for services, determine the technologies that will be leveraged and how they will interact, and ensure that the system architecture meets privacy, security, and compliance requirements and expectations.</span><span xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto"> </span><span xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto"> </span><span data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559740":278}"> </span></span></p></li></ul></div><div><ul style="list-style-type: disc;" role="list"><li style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;" role="listitem" data-aria-level="1" data-aria-posinset="1" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"multilevel"}" data-listid="20" data-font="Symbol" data-leveltext="" aria-setsize="-1"><p><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto">You will lead by example, implementing quality code, that is extensible and maintainable. You will ensure coding standards considering diagnosability, reliability, and maintainability when writing and reviewing code.</span><span xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto"> </span><span xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto"> </span><span data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559740":278}"> </span></span></p></li></ul></div><div><ul style="list-style-type: disc;" role="list"><li style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;" role="listitem" data-aria-level="1" data-aria-posinset="1" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"multilevel"}" data-listid="21" data-font="Symbol" data-leveltext="" aria-setsize="-1"><p><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto">You will incorporate appropriate continuous feedback loops measuring usage patterns, performance, and other actionable metrics which will ensure the health of APIs, features, and services.</span><span xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto"> </span><span xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto"> </span><span data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559740":278}"> </span></span></p></li></ul></div><div><ul style="list-style-type: disc;" role="list"><li style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;" role="listitem" data-aria-level="1" data-aria-posinset="1" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"multilevel"}" data-listid="22" data-font="Symbol" data-leveltext="" aria-setsize="-1"><p><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto">You will act as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) for our services on rotation. While working on-call you will monitor our services for degradation, downtime, or interruptions to ensure that we maintain our Service Level Agreements (SLAs) and to identify areas to improve across instrumentation, metrics, alerting, and livesite processes. You will guide other engineers by developing and following a playbook.</span><span xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto"> </span><span xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto"> </span><span data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559740":278}"> </span></span></p></li></ul></div><div><ul style="list-style-type: disc;" role="list"><li style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;" role="listitem" data-aria-level="1" data-aria-posinset="2" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"multilevel"}" data-listid="22" data-font="Symbol" data-leveltext="" aria-setsize="-1"><p><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto">Embody our </span><a 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Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python</span><span> </span></span></p></li></ul></div><div><ul style="list-style-type:disc"><li style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt"><p><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt"><span>OR equivalent experience.</span><span> </span></span></p></li></ul></div><div><ul style="list-style-type:disc"><li style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt"><p><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt"><span>Experience in design, coding, debugging, and problem-solving.</span><span> </span></span></p></li></ul></div><div><ul style="list-style-type:disc"><li style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt"><p><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt"><span>4+ years of experience designing and developing online services.</span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span></span></p></li></ul></div><div><ul style="list-style-type:disc"><li style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt"><p><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt"><span>Experience organizing, executing and delivering work as committed, on time and with high quality.</span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span></span></p></li></ul></div><div><p><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt"><span> </span><span> </span></span></p></div><div><p><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt"><strong><span>Preferred:</span></strong><span> </span></span></p></div><div><ul style="list-style-type:disc"><li style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt"><p><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt"><span>Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python</span><span> </span></span></p></li></ul></div><div><ul style="list-style-type:circle"><li style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt"><p><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt"><span>OR Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python</span><span> </span></span></p></li></ul></div><div><ul style="list-style-type:circle"><li style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt"><p><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt"><span>OR equivalent experience.</span><span> </span></span></p></li></ul></div><div><ul style="list-style-type:disc"><li style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt"><p><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt"><span>Knowledge of service design principles</span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span></span></p></li></ul></div><div><ul style="list-style-type:disc"><li style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt"><p><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt"><span>Experience with collaboration, and driving respectful and efficient design discussions.</span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span></span></p></li></ul></div><div><ul style="list-style-type:disc"><li style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt"><p><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">Knowledge of Azure Kubernetes Services and NoSQL DB.</span></p></li></ul></div> <br><p>This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.</p><br><hr><br><p>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, read more about <a href="https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/accessibility.html"><b><u>requesting accommodations.</u></b></a></p>