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On Team Xbox we aspire to empower the world s 3 billion gamers to play the games they want with the people they want anywhere they want Gaming the largest and fastest growing category in media entertainment represents an important growth opportunity for Microsoft We are leading with innovation as highlighted by bringing Xbox to new devices with Cloud Gaming bringing the Game Pass subscription to PC and our recent acquisition of Activision Blizzard King creating exciting new possibilities for players The Xbox Experiences and Platforms team is home to the engineering work that makes this vision possible building the developer tools and services that enable game creators to craft incredible experiences the commerce systems that connect publishers with their audience and help gamers engage with their next favourite games the platforms on which those games play at their best and the experiences that turn every screen into an Xbox The Xbox Experiences and Platform Commerce XPC team is responsible for ensuring publishers have low friction access to our ecosystem rich insights into the publishing experience and a world class platform to provide their content to Gamers around the world We work closely with partner teams across Xbox as well as both internal and external game studios to further these goals We re always striving to find new and innovative ways of incorporating the latest in design patterns cloud tech and machine learning to create better experiences - all while maintaining very high availability services and ensuring the safety and security of our customers data Responsibilities Our team works primarily on high scale high availability back-end services that power publisher facing experiences The team also works closely with various partner teams inside Xbox to deliver comprehensive solutions This position will be responsible for designing and driving implementation of service-based solutions across these areas and partner teams An ideal candidate for this position will have extensive web services experience Responsibilities include Working on products and services leveraging the latest technologies from Microsoft Partner with experts across geographic and organizational boundaries to make impactful changes Adhere to modern engineering principles and practices code reviews and project management Take on the challenges of working with well-established large-scale systems Participate in governance activities manage technical tasks and ensure quality assurance through automated testing and integration validation Build functional and technical documentation write unit and integration tests and update Continuous Integration and Continuous Deliver CI CD pipelines Qualifications Required Qualifications Bachelor s degree in computer science or related technical field AND 3 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 Excellent skills in design debugging and problem solving Passion for customers product quality and test engineering Demonstrated experience in shipping high-quality products and services Familiarity with Azure web services multi-tiered client server distributed applications and cross device testing Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age ancestry color family or medical care leave gender identity or expression genetic information marital status medical condition national origin physical or mental disability political affiliation protected veteran status race religion sex including pregnancy sexual orientation or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws regulations and ordinances If you need assistance and or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process please send a request via the