27 oct
Microsoft
Santiago
At Xbox, our mission is to bring the joy and community of gaming to everyone on the planet. Gaming today brings people from all walks of life and geographies together—centering them around the thing they love most—GAMES!
Our team
The Xbox Experiences and Platform Commerce (XPC) group is responsible for helping those gamers discover and acquire digital game content, as well as ensuring that developers and publishers have low friction access to our ecosystem. We work closely with teams across Xbox, as well as both internal and external game studios. We’re always striving to find new and innovative ways of incorporating the latest in design patterns, cloud tech, and machine learning to create better experiences – all the while,
maintaining very high availability services and ensuring the safety and security of our customers’ data.
Qualifications
Required
- 3+ years of experience with Azure, micro-services, multi-tiered client/server distributed applications and cross device testing.
- Knowledge of distributed cloud service technologies such as Kubernetes, Redis, SQL, CosmosDB.
Preferred
- Excellent skills in design, debugging and problem solving.
- A passion for customers, product quality and test engineering.
- Demonstrated experience in shipping high-quality products or services.
- Good communication skills and the ability to communicate technical details clearly across organizational boundaries.
- Growth Mindset with a desire to learn, a tendency to embrace challenges, persist in the face of setback, see failures as essential to mastery, learn from criticism and find lessons and inspiration in the success of others.
Responsibilities
We are looking for a candidate who is passionate about designing and building high quality reliable Cloud services.
Within the XPC group, our team works primarily on high scale, high availability back-end services that power Publisher, Platform and Gamer facing experiences, across Xbox Console and PC Storefronts and beyond.
You will be responsible for enhancing and maintaining gaming product catalog and search backend that serve product information to millions of requests every day. As an experienced member of the team, you will actively participate in code reviews, design reviews, bug/issue triage, mentoring and driving engineering excellence initiatives.
Responsibilities include:
- Own features from start to finish. Partner with stakeholders/Product and Program Managers to get the requirements, document and review the design doc, implementation, add unit tests and validate,
and implement new alerts and metrics as needed for the feature.
- Design and develop large scale distributed software services and solutions.
- Adhere to and drive modern software engineering practices through design and code reviews.
- System design through well-defined interfaces across multiple components, code reviews, leveraging data/telemetry to make decisions.
- Develop “best-in-class” engineering for our services by ensuring that the services and the components are well-defined and modularized, secure, reliable, diagnosable, actively monitored and reusable.
- Improve test coverage for services, organize and implement integration tests, and resolve problem areas.
- Consider testability, portability/monitoring, reliability, and maintainability,
and understand when code is ready to be shared and delivered.
- Gain a working understanding of Microsoft Gaming as a business and collaborate with mentors and leaders to contribute to cohesive, end-to-end experiences for our customers.
- Focus on customer/partner needs through a data driven approach.
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
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 and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.
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▶️ Senior Software Engineer-Xbox
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