Base Salary
$102k - $202k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, test, and maintain extensible, diagnosable, reliable software for XBOX Cloud Gaming server systems and services.
- Contribute to technical designs and deliver secure, scalable solutions with engineering and product partners.
- Write production-quality code, participate in code reviews, and improve maintainability, performance, security, and compliance.
- Debug issues across applications, operating systems, virtualization, inter-process communication, remote procedure calls, networks, cloud services, and hardware using logs, telemetry, traces, and diagnostic tools.
- Build observability into services, analyze production data, conduct root-cause investigations, and improve reliability and player experience.
- Develop automated unit, integration, and scenario tests and use safe deployment practices to release changes.
- Participate in live-site operations and an on-call rotation, helping mitigate incidents and improve operational readiness.
- Use AI-assisted development tools and agentic workflows responsibly while maintaining human review, security, privacy, and quality standards.
- Automate repetitive engineering and operational work and improve developer workflows and service efficiency.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field and 2+ years of technical engineering experience with coding in C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python, or equivalent experience.
- Experience designing, implementing, testing, or debugging production software is preferred.
- Experience with logs, telemetry, or diagnostic tools for investigating software or service issues is preferred.
- Experience with C++ and Windows systems, operating-system components, virtualization technologies, or hardware-adjacent software is preferred.
- Experience with inter-process communication or remote procedure call technologies such as gRPC or COM is preferred.
- Experience building or operating distributed cloud services with attention to scalability, availability, performance, and security is preferred.
- Knowledge of networking fundamentals and real-time, media, or game-streaming systems is preferred.
- Experience with observability, automated testing, continuous integration and delivery, infrastructure or configuration automation, and safe deployment practices is preferred.
- Experience with live-site support, incident response, root-cause analysis, or service reliability improvements is preferred.
- Experience using AI-assisted development tools, coding assistants, or agentic workflows responsibly is preferred.
- Problem-solving, communication, collaboration, customer-focused engineering, and willingness to learn new technologies are preferred.
Benefits
- The position is based in Redmond, Washington.
- The role includes live-site operations and an on-call rotation.
- Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.
- Applications are accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled, with the posting open for a minimum of 5 days.
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