Team Xbox's Gaming Intelligence and AI team decision engine and experimentation platform team builds the foundation that powers data-driven decision-making across gaming experiences. The Software Engineer II will create features and frameworks that enable partner teams to test ideas quickly, measure impact, and deliver individualized experiences that delight players.
Requirements
- 2+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience.
- 2+ years of experience in engineering and building distributed systems, backend services or data platforms.
- Experience with cloud stack (azure preferable or equivalent) including services such as blob storage, and container orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes).
- Hands-on experience using or enabling A/B experimentation to drive product optimization and learning.
- Experience with C++, Redux.
- Full stack development experience.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain experimentation platforms that support large-scale gaming environments.
- Partner with data engineer, data science and product teams to create tools and APIs that make experimentation and evaluation seamless.
- Ensure the reliability, scalability, and performance of experimentation infrastructure across distributed systems.
- Contribute to observability and monitoring systems to ensure experiment results are trustworthy.
- Drive best practices in platform engineering, automation, CI/CD, and infrastructure-as-code.
- Stay current with advances in experimentation methods, ML-driven evaluation, and platform technologies.
Other
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field
- Experience to work with cross-functional partners in data engineers, data scientists and product partners.
- Ability to navigate ambiguity and deliver results across organizational boundaries.
- Knowledge of engineering and security best practices.
- Microsoft will accept applications for the role until September 22, 2025.
