Senior Software Engineer

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 Experiences and Platforms engineering team is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to help us build new end-to-end features across Windows and Xbox experiences to make gaming great across many device form factors, expanding the PC gaming ecosystem towards the next generation.  

In your role, you will work with a diverse team of engineers, building experiences and infrastructure that drive growth in the PC ecosystem. You will work closely with Window partners and external hardware manufacturers to improve the experience for gaming handheld devices, and contribute to improving in-market PC experiences in Game Bar and the Xbox App.   

You will lead your feature crew to deliver features and codebase improvements on PC Xbox experiences. Your success requires that you work closely with your feature crew, product management, and design. As a technical leader, you will contribute to projects with meticulous execution, hold a high bar on quality, and partner with individuals on your team, providing a positive environment for technical and career growth.   

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!  

Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.  

Responsibilities

• As a Senior Software Engineer, you will be responsible for feature design and implementation, holding a high bar on quality and delivering your projects through meticulous execution. You can build features independently, and work with other engineers to drive larger features. 

• As a feature owner, you will navigate ambiguity through collaboration with Product Management (PM) and Design to ideate, scope, and drive implementation, validation, and ensure our products are shipped at a high quality. 

• As a technical leader on the team, you will be a mentor and role model to those around you by demonstrating engineering best practices, broadening team knowledge, and improving product infrastructure like performance, reliability, accessibility, and telemetry.  

• Foster positive co-engineering relationships across Windows and external companies resulting in great experiences for gaming.  

Curiosity to understand what excites our existing user base and what motivates new users to use our products is part of the job: we own the end-to-end experience. Identify an MVP, implement, flight to a target set of users, collect data from flight audiences, iterate, pivot, and repeat – this is the DNA of our development culture.