Job Description

At Xbox, we believe in our mission of reaching over 2 billion gamers worldwide. Gaming today brings people from all walks of life and geographies together--centering them around the thing they love most--GAMES!

The Gaming Publisher Experience team is responsible for ensuring developers and 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

Our team works primarily on high scale, high availability back-end services that power developer and publisher facing experiences, as well as with front-end teams to enable customer-facing experiences with our services and data. The team also works closely with various partner teams inside of Xbox to deliver comprehensive solutions, including with teams in the UK and India. 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 as well as some front-end experience.

Responsibilities include:

* Dealing with ambiguity
* Key contributions in a medium-to-large area
* Ability to ramp up quickly
* Strong fundamental skills from design to debugging
* Emerging technical and organizational leadership capabilities
* Proposing solutions to problems and driving them to completion
* Familiarity with process (how) and customers of work (why); an understanding of the bigger picture
* 5+ years of professional software development experience
* 2+ years of professional experience with designing, developing, and shipping highly reliable distributed systemsu202Fand services
* Experience with cloud platforms such as Azure or AWS
* Knowledge of distributed cloud service technologies such as Redis, Azure Data Lake, CosmosDB
* Knowledge of web technologies such as React/Angular,u202FJavascript, HTML, CSS is a plus

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