Microsoft

Principal Software Development Engineer - XBOX Product Growth

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Responsibilities

  • Propose product hypotheses and vision, size opportunities, define success metrics, and execute growth experiments.
  • Design, ship, instrument, analyze, and iterate on experiments across Xbox services, clients, console, and potentially web, mobile, and external surfaces.
  • Build telemetry, metrics, analytics, and scorecards that enable objective experiment evaluation and informed rollout decisions.
  • Develop full-stack features and substantial technical changes in unfamiliar, cross-team codebases from prototype through general availability.
  • Participate in live-site operations and the on-call rotation.
  • Use agentic workflows and AI across the engineering lifecycle to accelerate research, prototyping, implementation, debugging, and iteration.
  • Mentor engineers and raise engineering standards through design reviews, code reviews, and engineering practices.
  • Build secure, reliable, high-performing systems that meet Microsoft 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.
  • Experience shipping end-to-end production A/B tests, including instrumentation, analysis, rollout, experiment quality, and guardrails.
  • Experience with growth engineering, retention, engagement, acquisition, or experimentation-focused teams.
  • Experience building and shipping full-stack features with TypeScript, React, XAML, C#, .NET, and cloud infrastructure such as Microsoft Azure.
  • Track record of proposing product ideas that were shipped and measured and owning growth, engagement, retention, or monetization metrics.
  • Experience collaborating across functions and teams, navigating unfamiliar architectures, modifying other teams' production codebases, and working with design, product, and engineering partners.
  • Experience with large-scale telemetry, metric design, and analytics tools or platforms such as Kusto and Databricks.
  • Demonstrated use of AI tools to accelerate engineering velocity across production feature development.
  • Experience shipping consumer products at scale in gaming, entertainment, commerce, or subscription businesses.

Benefits

  • Typical base pay in Canada is CAD $142,400-$257,500 per year.
  • The position is open for at least five days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until filled.

Categories

Full StackGrowth Engineering
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About Microsoft

10,000+ employees

Microsoft develops operating systems, productivity software, cloud services, developer tools, and consumer devices for individuals, enterprises, and governments. Its main products include Windows, Microsoft 365, Azure, Visual Studio/GitHub, Xbox, and LinkedIn; revenue comes from software subscriptions and licenses, cloud consumption, hardware sales, and advertising. Founded in 1975 and headquartered in Redmond, Washington, Microsoft is a public company traded on Nasdaq.

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