Senior Software Engineer - Backend

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 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.

The Xbox Experiences and Platforms team is home to the engineering work that makes this vision possible, building the developer tools and services that enable game creators to craft incredible experiences, the commerce systems that connect publishers with their audience and help gamers engage with their next favourite games, the platforms on which those games play at their best, and the experiences that turn every screen into an Xbox.

Responsibilities

Our Developer team is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join us in our journey to reimagine how game creators bring content to life—working together to transform the way developers onboard, publish, and receive support across our platforms. Our mission is to simplify and accelerate the creator journey by building intuitive tools, resilient services, and responsive support systems that empower creators—from indie studios to AAA publishers—to move faster, with greater confidence and less friction.  

Responsibilities include: 

• Working on products and services leveraging the latest technologies from Microsoft.
• Partner with experts across geographic and organizational boundaries to make impactful changes. 
• Adhere to modern engineering principles and practices, code reviews, and project management.
• Take on challenges of working with well-established, large-scale systems. 
• Participate in governance activities, manage technical tasks, and ensure quality assurance through automated testing and integration validation.
• Share knowledge through mentorship and regular team interactions.
• Build functional and technical documentation, write unit and integration tests, and update Continuous Integration and Continuous Deliver (CI/CD) pipelines.
  
  

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 7+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience.
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Excellent skills in design, debugging and problem solving. 
• Commitment to customers, product quality and test engineering. 
• Demonstrated experience in shipping high-quality products or services.
• Familiarity with Azure, Autopilot, web services, multi-tiered client/server distributed applications and cross device, testing.
• Knowledge of distributed cloud service technologies such as Kubernetes, Redis, Azure Data Lake, CosmosDB.  
• Good communication skills and ability to collaborate with multiple teams within the organization. 
  
  

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, 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.