• Senior Platform Engineer - Xbox Publishing

    Microsoft Corporation (Redmond, WA)


    Overview

     

    The Xbox Game Studios Publishing team responsible for the recently released Ninja Gaiden 4, Microsoft Flight Simulator and Ori and the Will of the Wisps is seeking an experienced Senior Platform Engineer.  This is a rare opportunity to join a creative and motivated team of people, develop exciting new projects, and take advantage of the newest technology available with backing and support from across Microsoft. Join the team driving world-class game development that sets the standard for entertainment across a growing family of devices including Xbox and Windows.

     

    Our team is responsible for building and operating the services and websites that power our games – whether they were released years ago or have yet to be announced. We’re looking for a platform engineer with extensive experience building and maintaining the cloud infrastructure that powers large-scale, highly available, secure-by-default web services and websites.

    Responsibilities

    + Build and maintain infrastructure-as-code for cloud-hosted game services and websites, with a specific focus on improving security across our portfolio.

    + Develop effective and reusable monitoring and alerting to achieve high availability.

    + Design and implement processes to securely maintain and update infrastructure across our portfolio.

    + Collaborate with the team to address security incidents and initiative-driven change requests as they arise.

    + Troubleshoot and resolve service, website, and infrastructure failures.

    + Participate in 24x7 on-call rotation.

    Qualifications

    Required Qualifications:

    + Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 4+ 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:

    + Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python

    + OR equivalent experience.

    + Proven experience developing and operating Kubernetes clusters and applications deployed on them.

    + Experience with a cloud computing environment (Azure or others).

    + Experience with Terraform or comparable IaC tools.

    + Operational experience with an observability stack, preferably Prometheus and Grafana.

    + Development experience with CI/CD pipeline (Azure DevOps or others).

    + Development experience with ASP.NET Core service, Go/Python, and Kusto Query Language

    + Understanding and experience with operating REST services.

    + Demonstrable experience creating or contributing to Helm charts.

    + Website development and/or operations experience, especially with PHP/WordPress/Apache.

    + History of game development experience or a passion for online gaming.

     

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    Software Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $119,800 - $234,700 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $158,400 - $258,000 per year.

     

    Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:

     

    https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

     

    This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

     

    Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. 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 with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations. (https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/accessibility.html)