Microsoft

Principal Software Development Engineer - XBOX Product Growth

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23 hours ago
Remote, United States +2 moreStaff+
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Base Salary

$143k - $304k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Propose product hypotheses and vision, size opportunities, define success metrics, and execute growth experiments.
  • Design, ship, instrument, analyze, iterate, scale, or retire experiments across Xbox surfaces and feature areas.
  • Build full-stack changes across services, console clients, instrumentation, and potentially web, mobile, and external surfaces.
  • Enter unfamiliar codebases, make focused production changes, and participate in live-site and on-call rotations.
  • Accelerate engineering through agentic workflows and AI across research, prototyping, implementation, debugging, and iteration.
  • Mentor engineers through design reviews, code reviews, and engineering practices.
  • Build secure, reliable, high-performing systems that meet Microsoft's privacy, compliance, and security requirements.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in computer science or a related technical field and 6+ years of technical engineering experience with coding, or equivalent experience.
  • 3+ years of end-to-end production A/B testing experience, including experiment quality and guardrails.
  • 6+ years building and shipping full-stack features with modern front ends and production cloud services.
  • Experience in growth engineering, retention, engagement, acquisition, experimentation, or consumer products at scale.
  • Experience proposing, shipping, and measuring product ideas and owning growth, engagement, retention, or monetization metrics.
  • Experience collaborating across product, design, and engineering teams and navigating unfamiliar architectures and partner reviews.
  • Experience with large-scale telemetry, metric design, and analytics platforms such as Kusto or Databricks.
  • Demonstrated use of AI tools to research, prototype, implement, debug, and iterate on production features.

Benefits

  • The typical U.S. base pay range is $142,800-$274,800 per year, with a separate San Francisco Bay Area and New York City metropolitan area range of $188,000-$304,200 per year.
  • 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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Full StackGrowth Engineering
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